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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 8, 1996Madison County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1996, 8:26 PM EDT for Madison County, Ohio. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 1996, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 495 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 703 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 6.0

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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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 8, 2:13 PM EDT, 6 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:13 PM EDT, 6 hours 13 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
213 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996

LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS WARM FRONT ACROSS CNTRL OH...BUT ONLY A
LITTLE CLEARING HAS OCCURRED SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY.  ADAP SHOWS
ATMOSPHERE TO BE WEAKLY UNSTABLE FROM SFC PARCEL AND SOME MOISTURE
CONVERGENCE OCCURRING OVER SWRN OH.  EXPECT LARGE MCS TO MOVE INTO AREA
LATE PM INTO THE EVENING HOURS.  FLASH FLOOD WATCH WL BE EXTENDED
THROUGH 400 AM THU PER COORDINATION WITH CLE.

WARM FRONT WL CONT TO LIFT NWD OVERNIGHT REACHING NRN OH BY THU AM.
MODELS SHOW BEST LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND MOISTURE OVER NRN AREAS SO
HIGHEST POPS THERE.  HOWEVER...FOR CMH-DAY AND SOUTH CONDITIONS WL BE
UNSTABLE AND WITH POSSIBLE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WL INCLUDE CHC POPS THERE
FOR THU PER COORDINATION WITH CLE.  WL LEAVE SOUTH DRY FOR THU NIGHT
WITH POPS INCLUDED FOR NORTH.  CHC TRW AGAIN FOR FRI.

PM HIGHS MAY BE A DEGREE OR TWO HIGH FOR NEXT FEW DAYS...BUT WL STICK
CLOSE TO MOS TEMPS.

CVG 64/83/65/82 7303
CMH 61/81/64/81 7324
DAY 61/80/63/81 7324

WILKINSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 7:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COVINGTON, KY
708 PM EDT WED MAY 08 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

615 PM     OWENTON                 KY     WIDESPREAD TREES
           OWEN                           DOWN AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. SOME HOUSES
                                          DAMAGED DUE TO DOWNED TREES.

DIAN

Local storm report, May 8, 7:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COVINGTON, KY
718 PM EDT WED MAY 08 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

646 PM     NEVILLE                 OH     POSSIBLE TORNADO.
           SRN CLERMONT                   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND
                                          ONE TRAILER DESTROYED.
                                          U.S. 52 CLOSED DUE TO DOWNED
                                          TREES.

DIAN

Local storm report, May 8, 7:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
725 PM EDT WED MAY 08 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

646 PM     NEVILLE                 OH     POSSIBLE TORNADO.
           SRN CLERMONT                   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND
                                          ONE TRAILER DESTROYED.
                                          U.S. 52 CLOSED DUE TO DOWNED@
                                          TREES.

DIAN
CORRECTED FOR LOCATION IN HEADER

Local storm report, May 8, 7:26 PM EDT, 1 hour before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
726 PM EDT WED MAY 08 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

646 PM     NEVILLE                 OH     POSSIBLE TORNADO.
           SRN CLERMONT                   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND
                                          ONE TRAILER DESTROYED.
                                          U.S. 52 CLOSED DUE TO DOWNEDD
                                          TREES.

DIAN
CORRECTED FOR LOCATION IN HEADER

Local storm report, May 8, 7:55 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
755 PM EDT WED MAY 08 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

600 PM     N PART OF CO            IN     WIND DAMAGE
           SWITZERLAND                    NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

615 PM     COUNTYWIDE              KY     WIND DAMAGE
           OWEN                           NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                          POWER LINES DOWN

620 PM     NEEDMORE                KY     WIND DAMAGE
           OWEN                           ROOF BLOWN OFF BUSINESS

620 PM     LUBESMILL               KY     WIND DAMAGE
           OWEN                           HOMES DAMAGED

622 PM     MONTEREY ROAD           KY     WIND DAMAGE
           OWEN

622 PM     SOUTH FORK              KY     WIND DAMAGE
           OWEN                           ROOF BLOWN OFF BUILDING

SANDLER

Local storm report, May 8, 8:03 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
800 PM EDT WED MAY 08 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

650 PM     RT 52 & RT 758          OH     WIND DAMAGE
           CLERMONT                       TREES DOWN
                                          POWER LINES DOWN

717 PM     2 MI N WEST UNION       OH     58 MPH WIND GUST
           ADAMS

SANDLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark	28 min
May 8, 8:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clark	28 min
May 8, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Madison	34 min
May 8, 9:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Franklin	30 min
May 8, 9:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Franklin	30 min
May 8, 9:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	45 min
May 8, 10:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Franklin	117 min
May 8, 10:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Fairfield	3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.