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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Wilmington, OH

November 7, 1996Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 2:53 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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
Nov 7, 1996, 2:53 PM EST (19:53 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 3:30 PM EST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ripley County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 7, 3:15 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Elrod, IN

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 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 Nov 7, 10:16 AM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 7, 10:16 AM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 7, 10:54 AM EST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
OHZ044>046-052>056-062>065-070>074-077>082-088-089-KYZ088>100-INZ
073>075-080-072200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1055 AM EST NOV 07 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
   EVENING...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS
EXTREME SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND PORTIONS OF
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO.

A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO WESTERN OHIO AROUND SUNSET AND INTO CENTRAL
OHIO TONIGHT. SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUD COVER AHEAD OF THIS FRONTAL
SYSTEM WILL CAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME MARGINALLY UNSTABLE THIS
AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP OVER
SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST OHIO AFTER MID
AFTERNOON AND INTO CENTRAL OHIO DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. SOME OF
THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS
WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

RANDALL
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 1:48 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
OHZ063-064-070>074-077>082-088-089-KYZ088>100-INZ058-059-066-
073>075-080-070100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
148 PM EST NOV 07 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST FOR SOUTHEAST
INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO.
SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE....CINCINNATI...WILMINGTON...
HAMILTON...CHILLICOTHE AND PORTSMOUTH.

A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO WESTERN OHIO AROUND SUNSET AND INTO CENTRAL
BY MIDNIGHT. SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUD COVER AHEAD OF THIS FRONTAL
SYSTEM WILL CAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME MARGINALLY UNSTABLE THIS
AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER
THE CINCINNATI AREA AROUND 4 PM.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE
STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

RANDALL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 3:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke, Preble42 min
Nov 7, 3:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Hamilton30 min
Nov 7, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMiami, Shelby45 min
Nov 7, 3:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery35 min
Nov 7, 4:11 PM ESTTornado WarningILNMontgomery29 min
Nov 7, 4:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Warren40 min
Nov 7, 4:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign, Clark47 min
Nov 7, 4:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown, Clinton26 min
Nov 7, 5:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Highland49 min
Nov 7, 5:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams49 min
Nov 7, 5:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin65 min
Nov 7, 5:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPike, Ross, Scioto53 min
Nov 7, 5:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPickaway53 min
Nov 7, 5:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDelaware47 min
Nov 7, 6:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield, Hocking, Licking60 min
Nov 7, 3:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCarroll39 min
Nov 7, 4:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Pendleton38 min
Nov 7, 4:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken38 min
Nov 7, 5:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMason41 min
Nov 7, 5:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis53 min
Nov 7, 2:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin27 min
Nov 7, 3:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Franklin45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.