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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 15, 1994Owen County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 11:21 AM EDT for Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 1994, 11:21 AM EDT (15:21 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 1994, 12:30 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Owen County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1994-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1994-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCVG 151522
SVRCVG
KYC187-151630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
1121 AM EDT FRI APR 15 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH KENTUCKY
 
   ...OWEN COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF OWEN COUNTY
KENTUCKY MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. OWENTON IS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO
WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITION(S.
STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS AS THIS STORM MOVES OVERHEAD.
 
 
JOHNSTONE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 11:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCarroll, Gallatin56 min
Apr 15, 11:17 AM EDTTornado WarningILNCarroll, Gallatin28 min
Apr 15, 11:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone44 min
Apr 15, 11:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGrant52 min
Apr 15, 11:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Kenton, Pendleton62 min
Apr 15, 12:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken65 min
Apr 15, 12:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMason57 min

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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.