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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Wilmington, OH

November 7, 1996Brown County, Clinton County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 4:49 PM EST for Brown County, Clinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports 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, 4:49 PM EST (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 1996, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brown County, OH, Clinton County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 7, 4:55 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Hamersville, OH
Nov 7, 5:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Wilmington, 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 29 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

301 
WUUS01 KILN 072154
SVRILN
OHC015-027-072215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
449 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWEST OHIO

   ...BROWN COUNTY...CLINTON COUNTY

AT 448 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN PARTS OF GREENE...CLINTON...AND BROWN
COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF WIND DAMAGE AND WILL
AFFECT WILMINGTON...AND MOUNT ORAB.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED
FOR A STURDIER STRUCTURE.


WILKINSON
$$
...CORRECTED TO MOVE XENIA FROM TEXT...

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 3:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Preble	42 min
Nov 7, 3:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	30 min
Nov 7, 3:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami, Shelby	45 min
Nov 7, 3:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	35 min
Nov 7, 4:11 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Montgomery	29 min
Nov 7, 4:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Warren	40 min
Nov 7, 4:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark	47 min
Nov 7, 5:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Highland	49 min
Nov 7, 5:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	49 min
Nov 7, 5:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	65 min
Nov 7, 5:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike, Ross, Scioto	53 min
Nov 7, 5:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	53 min
Nov 7, 5:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	47 min
Nov 7, 6:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking, Licking	60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.