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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 15, 1995Champaign County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 3:11 PM EDT for Champaign County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Champaign County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 45 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 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3335 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 15, 2:28 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:28 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
228 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995

NO TIME FOR DISC THIS AFTN. SVR TSTMS ACRS WRN FA ATTM BLDG SLOWLY
EWRD TWD CNTRL OH. STMS SLOW MOVG SO WL HAVE TO CONT TO WATCH FOR
FLDG PRBLMS. ADAP CHARTS SHWG MOST UNSTBL AIR ACRS CNTRL OH IN AREA
OF MAX HEATING SO ERWD TREND LIKELY TO CONT THRU AFTN. NMRS OUTFLOW
BNDRYS EVIDENT ON RADAR SO MORE DVLPMT LIKELY ALG THESE. LTST VOL
SCAN SHWG VIL OF 80...HIGHEST SO FAR TDA...OVR MIAMI CNTY.

LOTT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 12:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
INZ074-058-066-075-073-080-059-050-OHZ081-025-035-079-070-052-053-
078-072-042-046-065-063-055-062-077-026-080-074-056-044-054-034-
051-061-015-064-082-060-016-088-043-045-024-071-KYZ091-097-
093-089-090-095-092-100-099-094-096-201-152100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1254 PM EDT (1154 AM EST) SAT JUL 15 1995

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EASTERN INDIANA...
WESTERN AND CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 7 PM
EDT...WHICH IS ALSO 6 PM EST.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THUNDERSTORMS WITH WINDS
GUSTING TO OVER 55 MILES AN HOUR...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...AND DANGEROUS
HAIL COULD OCCUR IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.

THE HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS...COMBINED WITH A SMALL SURFACE TROUGH THAT
IS LYING OVER THE AREA HAVE COMBINED TO GIVE THE REGION THE POSSIBILITY
FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

PLEASE KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.  DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER
OF UNKNOWN DEPTH AND BE AWARE THAT LIGHTNING CAN KILL.

DANGELO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 1:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke50 min
Jul 15, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPreble53 min
Jul 15, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke30 min
Jul 15, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMiami, Shelby64 min
Jul 15, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery45 min
Jul 15, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene39 min
Jul 15, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler64 min
Jul 15, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton54 min
Jul 15, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams47 min
Jul 15, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn49 min
Jul 15, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley43 min
Jul 15, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNSwitzerland54 min
Jul 15, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.