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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 300, NWS Wilmington, OH

November 7, 1996Dearborn County, Franklin County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 3:15 PM EST for Dearborn County, Franklin County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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, 3:15 PM EST (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 4:00 PM EST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dearborn County, IN, Franklin County, IN

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 104 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, 3:30 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Dillsboro, 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, 3:09 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 7, 3:09 PM EST, 6 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
309 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

CONCERNS THIS RUN ARE CHC/S FOR HVY RN THIS EVE AND EVALUATION
OF NEED FOR FFA. LTST SFC ANLYS SHWS STG CDFNT FM NR TOL TO NR MIE
TO JUST W OF SDF. MRGNLY UNSBL AMS HAS DVLPD AHD OF THIS FNT. THIS FNT
HS BEEN PARALLEL TO UPR FLO AND SHWN VRY SLO EWD MVNT. UPR TROF OVR
NATIONS MID SECTION SHARPENS UP AND TAKES ON A NEG TILT THRU PD. WV
IMGRY SWHS MAIN S/WV IN MN TROF PSN LFTG NE THRU MO. AS SFC WV OVR SRN
IN LFTS NE PRECIP WL BGN TO ACCELERATE. LN OF CNVTN HS DVLPD ALONG THE
FNT FM SRN IN THRU KY. THREAT FOR SVR-WX IN FORM OF DMGG WNDS WL OCCUR
ACRS XTRM SRN OH AND NRN KY THRU ERLY EVE. PW VALUES XPCTD TO INCRS TO
1.4 TO 1.5 INCHES. XPCT TO SEE SOME POCKETS OF MOD TO HVY RN THRU EVE
ESP ACRS SRN OH WHERE BEST MSTR AND INSTBY IS IN PLACE. XPCT TO SEE
1 TO 1.5 BASIN AVG PRECIP VALUES WHICH WL APPROACH FFG. THEREFORE...DUE
NOT XPCT TO SEE WIDESPREAD FLOODING. H8 60KT SRLY JET OFFERING GOOD
LO LVL CNRGC COUPLED WITH RR QUAD OF 130 KT H3 JET PROVIDING GOOD
UPR DIV ACRS SRN OH THIS EVE WHICH SHIFTS E INTO ERN OH BY 06Z.

PREFER NGM MOVEMENT OF FNT WITH SFC WV NR CVG AT 00Z AND JUST E OF
CLE BY 06Z. NGM GRIDDED TSEC/S SHWG DRY SLOT WORKING INTO WRN OH OVRNGT.
WITH UPR TROF LAGGING OH WL SEE INCRS IN LO LVL MSTR FRI AFTN/NGT
WITH WRAP ARND MSTR. QUESTION IS PRECIP TYPE. LOOKING AT CRITICAL
RN/SN THICKNESS 1000-850MB LYR RMNS WRM SO PRECIP SHUD BE ALL RAIN BUT
MAY MIX WITH A LTL SNW OVR W CNTRL DURG AFTN. CHC OF SNW SHWRS TO
CONT ACRS ALL OF CWA FRI NGT.

GOOD CAA BEHIND FNT...THERFORE PREFER READINGS CLOSER TO COOLER FAN
NUMBERS TNGT AND WL LKLY SEE NRLY STEADY TEMPS ON FRI.

CVG 043 046/032 038 +57
DAY 041 045/031 037 +68
CMH 046 048/033 037 +78

RANDALL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 7, 10:54 AM EST, 4 hours 21 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 27 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, 2:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.