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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 25, 1995Shelby County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 5:29 AM EDT for Shelby County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 5:29 AM EDT (09:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 6:15 AM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Shelby County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:32 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 877 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
877 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 250928 RRA
SVRILN
OHC149-251015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
529 AM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...SHELBY COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR IS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN SHELBY
COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF BOTKINS. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT
AROUND 10 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO
NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
LOTT

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 25, 3:10 AM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:10 AM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
310 AM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995

S/W MOVG INTO OH VLY ATTM WITH SCT SHWRS/TSTMS XTNDG FROM WRN IND INTO
CNTRL/WRN KY. CRNT TIMG PUTS PCPN INTO SWRN FA ARND 10Z AND WRN OH
ARND 12Z SO WL PLAY FTS ACCORDINGLY. S/W AND ASSOCIATED 8H TROF PROGD
ACRS FA THRU THIS AFTN WITH GOOD 8H MSTR CONVG LATE THIS AFTN ACRS ERN
FA. XPCT BRIEF BREAK IN PCPN DURG LATE MRNG/ERLY AFTN BUT SHUD STILL
SEE CHC TSTMS LATER THIS AFTN...ESPCLY ACRS CNTRL/S CNTRL OH. AMS SHUD
STABLZ THIS EVNG ONCE S/W MOVS THRU WITH PARTIAL CLRG ACRS RGN. AMS
RMNS MORE STBL INTO WED AND WITH WK RDGG MOVG IN...THINGS SHUD RMN DRY
SO WL KEEP POPS LOW. DESPITE COOLER TMPS YESTERDAY...WL GO A DEGREE
OR TWO WARMER THAN FWC TMPS FOR HIGHS.

CMH 86/68/87 421
DAY 87/67/87 412
CVG 87/67/87 412

LOTT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 5:23 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNShelby2 hr
Jul 25, 6:43 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNAuglaize2 hr
Jul 25, 11:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNUnion26 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.