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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 28, 1994Hardin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1994, 11:00 PM EDT for Hardin County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1994, 11:00 PM EDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1994, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Hardin County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
630 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 1994

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
OHIO UNTIL 2 AM EDT.

SOME OF THE CITIES IN THIS WATCH AREA INCLUDE MARION...MARYSVILLE...AND
MOUNT GILEAD.

AT 1015 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS
INDICATING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST OHIO.
THIS AREA WAS NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM CELINA...TO
BELLEFONTAINE...TO SANDUSKY.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWN OF WAPAKONETA.
THIS STORM PRODUCED A TORNADO NORTH OF CELINA...IN MERCER
COUNTY...EARLIER THIS EVENING.

MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

RAINSHOWERS SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN MARION AND NORTHERN UNION
COUNTIES BY 1030 PM...WITH THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THESE COUNTIES BY
1100 PM.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT
NORTH CENTRAL OHIO SHOULD CONTINUE TO CLOSELY MONITOR THIS WEATHER
SITUATION.

AVERY

OF...FRANKFORT...LEXINGTON...MOREHEAD...
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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

OHZ036-045-046-282330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
630 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 1994

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
OHIO UNTIL 2 AM EDT.

SOME OF THE CITIES IN THIS WATCH AREA INCLUDE MARION...MARYSVILLE...AND
MOUNT GILEAD.

AT 1015 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS
INDICATING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST OHIO.
THIS AREA WAS NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM CELINA...TO
BELLEFONTAINE...TO SANDUSKY.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWN OF WAPAKONETA.
THIS STORM PRODUCED A TORNADO NORTH OF CELINA...IN MERCER
COUNTY...EARLIER THIS EVENING.

MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

RAINSHOWERS SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN MARION AND NORTHERN UNION
COUNTIES BY 1030 PM...WITH THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THESE COUNTIES BY
1100 PM.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT
NORTH CENTRAL OHIO SHOULD CONTINUE TO CLOSELY MONITOR THIS WEATHER
SITUATION.

AVERY

OF...FRANKFORT...LEXINGTON...MOREHEAD...
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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:22 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:24 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Van Wert	62 min
Jun 28, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	65 min
Jun 28, 9:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	58 min
Jun 28, 9:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Auglaize, Mercer	38 min
Jun 28, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Allen	61 min
Jun 29, 12:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Crawford, Morrow	54 min
Jun 29, 12:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin	65 min
Jun 29, 1:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Richland	44 min
Jun 29, 1:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ashland, Knox	62 min
Jun 29, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Morrow	48 min
Jun 29, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Richland	67 min
Jun 29, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ashland	61 min
Jun 29, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Crawford	32 min
Jun 29, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Richland	36 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.