Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 8, 1995Warren County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 5:09 PM EDT for Warren County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 1995, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 1995-04-08Temperature 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 1995-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 082114 RRA
SVRILN
OHC165-082145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
509 PM EDT SAT APR 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
 
   WARREN COUNTY
 
AT 515 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM IN NORTHEAST
BUTLER COUNTY NEAR MIDDLETOWN MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM ARE SPRINGBORO...WAYNESVILLE AND CAESARS CREEK DAM.
 
 
IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE OUTDOORS WHILE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IN
PROGRESS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. SEEK SHELTER IN A BUILDING OR
A VEHICLE. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...STAY AWAY FROM TOWERS
AND TALL TREES. CROUCH NEAR THE GROUND AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

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 Apr 8, 2:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 2:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
230 PM EDT SAT APR 8 1995

LTST SFC ANLYS HS STNRY FNT ACRS CNTRL OH. ADAP SHWS LI/S IN -2 TO -6 RANGE
ACRS OH VLY IN WRM SECTOR. GOOD CNVG ALONG FNT WHICH IS FOCUSING MECH FOR
DVLPG CNVTN FRM NR CAK TO NR IN TO HUF. STG CNVTN OVR SW IN BTN IND AND HUF
WITH VILS TO 56. THESE STMS APRS TO BE HAIL PRODUCERS BUT NO REPORTS YET.
WK S/W INTIALIZED OVR NRN MO PROVIDING SOME UPR SUPP FOR TSTMS AS IT MOVS
ACRS AREA THIS EVE.

ANOTHER S/W MOVS FM PLNS INTO NRN IL BY 12Z SUN. THIS MORE SIG S/W SHUD
ENCHANCE TRW CHCS LT TNGT INTO ERLY SUN. 70 KT H5 SPEED MAX ROT ARND BASE
OF WRN US TROF INTO SRN PLNS ON SUN RESULTING IN CYCLGN OVR CNTRL PLNS
LFTG INTO MID MS VLY MON. TRW CHCS SHUD DIMINISH DURG DAY SUN AS RDGG
TAKES PLACE ALOFT OVR OH VLY AHD OF STG PLNS SYS. FLO BACKS LT SUN NGT
INTO MON AS H8 50 KT JET PUNCHES INTO MID MS VLY WITH GOOD UVV WORKING
INTO LWR OH VLY.

TEMPS WI8SE...PREFER WRM FWC MOS FOR TNGTS LOWS. BASED ON TDA/S HI/S FAN
NUMBERS APR TOO COOL SUN. WUD LIKE TO GO A LITTLE ABV FWC NUMBERS
SUN.

CVG 55/73/52  7/6/4
DAY 53/70/50  8/6/5
CMH 50/68/48  8/7/5

RANDALL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Montgomery, Warren61 min
Apr 8, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield, Franklin56 min
Apr 8, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler60 min
Apr 8, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield, Pickaway49 min
Apr 8, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.