Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 12:10 PM EDT for Clermont County, Ohio; Bracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 12:10 PM EDT (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bracken County, KY, Clermont County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.
- 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
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, Apr 15, 10:07 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
OHZ036-045-046-054-055-056-057-063-064-065-066-067-073-074-075- 084-151515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH 1006 AM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM FOR FAYETTE...MADISON...MARION... AND UNION COUNTIES OF CENTRAL OHIO. AT 1000 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM MADISON AND WESTERN PICKAWAY COUNTIES DOWN ACROSS CENTRAL ROSS COUNTY. THIS LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL EXTEND FROM COLUMBUS TO CIRCLEVILLE TO EASTERN ROSS COUNTY BY 1030 AM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WITH WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. GROH
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 10:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
INZ066-073-074-075-080-OHZ070-071-072-077-078-079-080-KYZ089-090- 091-092-093-094-095-096-097-099-151630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 1034 AM EDT (934 AM EST) FRI APR 15 1994 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE CINCINNATI TRISTATE UNTIL 400 PM EDT (300 PM EST). A TORNADO WATCH MEANS ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS AND FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE COME FROM PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA THIS MORNING. AT 1015 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN INTENSE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM MUNCIE INDIANA...75 MILES NORTHWEST OF CINCINNATI...TO LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE LEADING EDGE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS 15 MILES WEST OF WESTERN RIPLEY COUNTY INDIANA. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. IF A. TORNADO IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. JOHNSTONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 11:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Knox, Richland | 63 min |
| Apr 15, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 11:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 68 min |
| Apr 15, 11:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 12:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Warren | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 57 min |
| Apr 15, 12:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 42 min |
| Apr 15, 12:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Crawford | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Knox | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin | 56 min |
| Apr 15, 11:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin | 28 min |
| Apr 15, 11:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 69 min |
| Apr 15, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 11:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 11:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton, Pendleton | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 10:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 75 min |
| Apr 15, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio | 56 min |
| Apr 15, 11:07 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 11:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin | 51 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.