Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1994, 8:44 PM EDT for Defiance County, Ohio. It was in force for 16 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1994, 8:44 PM EDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1994, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Defiance County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 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, Jun 16, 5:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-008-024-026-017-162230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 433 PM EST THU JUN 16 1994 ...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING ACROSS A PORTION OF EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 430 PM EST/530 EDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING 30 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF ANTWERP OHIO. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH AND CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BY 530 PM EST/630 EDT...THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE LOCATED 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR OVER ANTWERP OHIO. MARSHALL
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-008-024-026-017-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 515 PM EST THU JUN 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 510 PM EST/610 EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE NEAR ANTWERP OHIO AND 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTLAND INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS. BY 600 PM EST/700 EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED 35 MILES EAST OF MARION NEAR PORTLAND AND 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR JUST SOUTH OF BUTLER INDIANA MARSHALL
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-008-024-026-017-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 515 PM EST THU JUN 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 510 PM EST/610 PM EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE NEAR ANTWERP OHIO AND 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTLAND INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. BY 600 PM EST/700 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED 35 MILES EAST OF MARION NEAR PORTLAND AND 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR JUST SOUTH OF BUTLER INDIANA MARSHALL CORRECTED TO ADD MOVEMENT OF STORMS IN 2ND PARAGRAPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-008-024-026-017-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 515 PM EST THU JUN 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 510 PM EST/610 PM EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE NEAR ANTWERP OHIO AND 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTLAND INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. BY 600 PM EST/700 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED 35 MILES EAST OF MARION NEAR PORTLAND AND 30 M(ILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE OR JUST SOUTH OF BUTLER INDIANA MARSHALL CORRECTED TO ADD MOVEMENT OF STORMS IN 2ND PARAGRAPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-008-024-026-017-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 611 PM EST THU JUN 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 610 PM EST/710 PM EDT SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING TO THE EAST OF A LINE WHICH EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 25 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. BY 700 PM EST/800 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OCCURRING TO THE EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILE NORTHWEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 5 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA. . MARSHALL
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
INZ027-018-033-009-032-025-034-008-024-026-017-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 611 PM EST THU JUN 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO... AT 610 PM EST/710 PM EDT SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING TO THE EAST OF A LINE WHICH EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 25 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. BY 700 PM EST/800 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OCCURRING TO THE EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILE NORTHWEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO TO 5 MILES EAST OF FORT WAYNE TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA. . MARSHALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance | 25 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.