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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Wilmington, OH

October 29, 1996Mercer County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1996, 11:32 PM EST for Mercer County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Oct 29, 1996, 11:32 PM EST (04:32 UTC)
Expired
Oct 30, 1996, 12:30 AM EST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Mercer County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 30, 12:15 AM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Carthagena, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-10-30Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-10-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 437 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
827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
437 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
505 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 29, 10:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPaulding55 min
Oct 29, 11:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNVan Wert72 min
Oct 29, 11:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke61 min
Oct 30, 12:17 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAuglaize, Shelby58 min
Oct 30, 12:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMiami60 min
Oct 30, 12:45 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHardin, Logan60 min
Oct 30, 1:18 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNUnion57 min
Oct 30, 1:24 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign66 min
Oct 30, 12:19 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWayne26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.