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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 14, 1995Crawford County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1995, 4:49 PM EDT for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1995, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Crawford County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KCLE 142049 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC033-142145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
449 PM EDT WED JUN 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY
 
AT 447 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
SOUTHERN SENECA COUNTY SOUTH OF TIFFIN. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL HIT THE CITIES OF CHATFIELD AND RIDGETON BY
510 PM.
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
 
WOODWORTH

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 Jun 14, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
230 PM EDT WED JUN 14 1995

AMPD PTRN WITH UPR LO IN ERN PAC OFF NW U.S. CST DIGGING SE ALONG W CST
WITH RDG BLDG OVR CNTRL U.S. THRU PD. OH REMAIN E OF UPR RDG AXIS THRU PD
IN WK NW FLO.

LTST SFC ANLYS SHWS WK CDFNT FM NE OH NWRD THRU MI. BEST PRES RISES
(PUSH) ACRS ERN CAN. LONE TSTM HAS DVLPD ACRS SE OH AHD OF FNTL BNDRY
WHERE LI/S ARE -6. FNT ACRS ERN PTN OF STA AND WK UPR SUPP BUT LIMITING
FACTOR IS DRY LO LVLS. XPCT WDLY SCTD PRECIP TO STAY E OF FA TNGT. SKIES
SHUD BE MSTLY CLR TNGT WITH ONLY SOME SCTD CI. SFC RDG AXIS THRU ERN IL
SLIDES E INTO OH TNGT. MSTLY CLR SKIES...LGT WNDS...SHUD ALLOW TEMPS TO
FALL TO LOWS NR DWPTS. PREFER SLGTLY COOLER FAN NUMBERS FOR TNGTS LOWS.

AGN DO NOT XPCT MUCH IN THE WAY OF CU DVLPMT ON THU. SHUD SEE MSTLY
SUNNY SKIES WITH MAINLY THIN CI. BASED ON PLENTY OF SS AND H85 TEMPS
HI/S SHUD BE ARND TDA/S HI/S. PREFER READINGS CLOSER TO WRMR FWC NUMBERS.
GRDL WRMG TREND CONTS ON FRI UNDER MSTLY SUNNY SKIES.

CVG 56/84/57/86  1111
DAY 54/83/57/85  1111
CMH 54/82/55/84  2111

RANDALL

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Knox	68 min
Jun 14, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Crawford	58 min
Jun 14, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Morrow	54 min
Jun 14, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Highland	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1995 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.