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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 24, 1995Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 7:00 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1995, 7:00 PM EST (00:00 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1995, 7:45 PM EST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ripley County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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.

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 8:48 AM EST, 10 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:48 AM EST, 10 hours 12 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
948 AM EDT WED MAY 24 1995

RW/TRW AGAIN MVG TWRD NW OH...STRONGEST ACTIVITY RIGHT NOW OVR IL...ALL
MVG NE. BOTH MDLS SHW FNT APPCH DAY BY 00Z. LOOKING AT KIND RDR...
SEEMS THAT ONLY TRW IN CVG WILL HAVE TO DVLP THIS AFT...NO ECHOS FROM
FORT WAYNE TO EVV SOUTH. WUD KEEP LO POP CHC/S FROM DAY TO CMH SOUTH.
MODIFIED DAY SNDG SHWD CAPE OF AROUND 600 WITH -4 LI/S.

WILL NOT MESS W/ P^REV AFD TEMPS.

CVG  85/65/79
DAY  80/62/73
CMH  84/62/74

FARINA

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 5:47 PM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
OHZ046-053>056-061>065-071>074-078>082-086-250300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
646 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995

THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL
OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:

IN OHIO...

ADAMS...BROWN...CLARK...CLERMONT...CLINTON...DELAWARE...FAIRFIELD...
FAYETTE...FRANKLIN...GREENE...HIGHLAND...HOCKING...LICKING...
MADISON...MONTGOMERY...PICKAWAY...PIKE...ROSS...SCIOTO
AND WARREN.

REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. STAY TUNED TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

FARINA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:54 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin, Greene, Madison2 hr
May 24, 8:54 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNLicking2 hr
May 24, 8:54 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNMontgomery2 hr
May 24, 9:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Scioto40 min
May 25, 9:42 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBrown, Clermont3 hr
May 25, 9:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNOhio4 hr
May 24, 7:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOwen41 min
May 24, 8:35 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNOwen115 min
May 24, 8:54 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNGrant, Owen2 hr
May 25, 7:04 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNPendleton3 hr
May 25, 7:21 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNCarroll6 hr
May 25, 8:42 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNGrant4 hr
May 25, 9:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNGallatin, Owen4 hr
May 25, 9:42 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNPendleton3 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.