Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1994, 7:12 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1994, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1994, 7:41 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDAY 282314 TORDAY OHC113-290000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 712 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 710 PM EDT MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS AND SYKWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS ACROSS MONTGOMERY COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WHICH MAY BE PRODUCING THE FUNNEL CLOUDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD... CHEST AND EXPOSED SKIN. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM. OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. PADGETT NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jul 28, 2:36 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
OHZ044-052-281945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 236 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1994 SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 235 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN OHIO WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED LITTLE OVER THE PAST ONE HOUR. HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND SEEK SHELTER WHEN A THUNDERSTORM IS IN YOUR AREA. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS. RCB NNNN
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.