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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 1, 1996Greene County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1996, 5:17 PM EDT for Greene 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: May 1, 1996, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Greene County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 1, 5:22 PM EDT	Hail 1	Xenia, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 30 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: 857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 199 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.

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 May 1, 2:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
159 PM EDT WED MAY 1 1996

NOT MUCH TIME WITH SVR TRW BOX RECENTLY ISSUED.  EXPECT TRW TO DEVELOP
AND MOVE THROUGH AREA THIS AFTERNOON.  MIGHT WANT TO INCLUDE EVENING
PERIOD IN SOUTHERN AREAS AS ACTIVITY MAY NOT CLEAR THESE AREAS BEFORE
700 PM.

SEVERAL SHORT WAVES TO AFFECT OH VALLEY NEXT FEW DAYS.  LIKE PC FOR
TONIGHT AND PS EARLY WITH INCREASING CLOUDS FOR THU.  THU NIGHT LOOKS
LIKE ANOTHER RW/TRW EVENT WITH GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT TO THE NORTH OF WRM
FRONT.  BEST INSTABILITY STAYS TO THE SOUTH...BUT MOIST CONVERGENCE AND
UPPER LEVEL HAS OH VALLEY IN BOTH RIGHT REAR AND LEFT FRONT OF H3 JETS.
RW/TRW LIKELY LOOKS GOOD FOR THU NIGHT.  DRY ON FRI AHEAD OF NEXT
SYSTEM THAT COULD CAUSE MORE RAIN FOR THE WEEKEND.

WILL STICK CLOSE TO MOS GUIDANCE.

CVG 45/70/50/74 2272
CMH 40/70/54/67 2272
DAY 41/68/52/68 2272

WILKINSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 2:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>072-077>079-INZ
050-058-059-066-074-020000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
214 PM EST WED MAY 1 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL AND MOST OF
SOUTHWEST OHIO...AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT (700 PM EST) FOR THE ABOVE LOCATIONS.  A
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON.  AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE...THE ATMOSPHERE HAD BECOME UNSTABLE
AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP.  THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
INTENSIFY THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS.  THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE
STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  TORRENTAIL DOWNPOURS AND
FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED AS WELL.

RESIDENTS OF THESE AREAS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE NORTHWESTERN SKY AND
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.

WILKINSON

Local storm report, May 1, 3:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 1, 4:30 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 4:59 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 1, 5:06 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer, Van Wert	64 min
May 1, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Greene	42 min
May 1, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	53 min
May 1, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	33 min
May 1, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton	40 min
May 1, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	20 min
May 1, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	59 min
May 1, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland	35 min
May 1, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	48 min
May 1, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	28 min
May 1, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.