Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1996, 2:18 PM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1996, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scioto County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 161820 SVRILN OHC145-161900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 218 PM EDT TUE APR 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH OHIO ...SCIOTO COUNTY AT 215 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS MOVING THROUGH SCIOTO COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM STOCKDALE THROUGH PORTSMOUTH MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH PORTSMOUTH...WEBSTER...SCIOTO FURNACE AND LYRA THROUGH 3 PM. TREES WERE DOWNED EARLIER WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS SINCE THEY CAN EASILY SHATTER IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR APPLIANCES UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. WINDS OF AROUND 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED! FARINA &
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 16, 9:41 AM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 9:41 AM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 940 AM EDT TUE APR 16 1996 LOTS OF BRKS OVR IN...AS S/W PIVOTS ACRS NRN PART OF ST. BASED ON SAT INTERP...SHUD MV TO C OH BY 18Z AND INTO THE PA BY 00Z. LTL FASTER THAN MDLS INDICATE. PRECIP CRNTLY MIX OF SW-/RW AHD OF S/W...KIND RDR SHWG CUPL MORE BANDS OF PRECIP OVR IN. SO GOOD IDEA TO KEEP PRECIP IN EARLY FOR SE INDIANA AND NRN KY...INTO THE AFTERNOON FOR OHIO. CUD SEE LTL MORE DVLPMENT IF START TO GET ANY BRKS IN CLDS. XPCT ANY BRKS THRU MID AFTERNOON WILL FILL IN QUICKLY. 850 THERM TROF PASSES THRU WRN PART OF CWA AR 00Z TNT AND THRU REST OF CWA BY 9Z. CLRG SHUD BEGIN ONCE TROF IS THRU. LIKE CRNT FCSTS OF DECREASING CLDS FOR OHIO...CLRG FOR IN AND PARTLY SUNNY FOR KY THIS AFT. TEMPS LOOK OK W/ READINGS IN THE METRO AREAS NR 40...MAY WANT TO BUMP CVG TO MID 40S. FARINA
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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.