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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 8, 1996Franklin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT for Franklin County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 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, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 090102
TORILN
OHC049-090130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
900 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING   EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 850 PM EDT THE MADISON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN BETWEEN LONDON AND WEST
JEFFERSON. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS TORNADO WAS ENTERING
WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...10 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS...AND WILL MOVE
THROUGH THE GREATER COLUMBUS AREA BY 930 PM.
 
VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES OFFER NO SHELTER FROM A TORNADO. LEAVE
THEM IMMEDIATELY FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. IF THERE IS NO
BUILDING AVAILABLE AND YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LIE FLAT
IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DO NOT STAND UP
TO WATCH THE TORNADO.
 
 
 
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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, 8:47 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 8:47 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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

NO TIME FOR REAL DISCUSSION AS SVR WX PERSISTS.  SATELLITE TRENDS
SUGGESTG A DRY PD AFT SVR WX MOVES E.  COULD BE DRY REST OF NGT
INTO MORNG AS WRM FNT PUSHES N OF FA.  NEXT ROUND OF TSTMS LOOK
LIKE THU AFT INTO NGT.

SANDLER

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 7:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes 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 34 minutes 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, 1 hour 5 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, 57 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

Local storm report, May 8, 8:41 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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

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

835 PM     MILTON CARLISE t& FREE   OH     WIND DAMAGE
           CLARK                          ROOF BLOWN OFF

SANDLER

Local storm report, May 8, 8:53 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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

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

645 PM     3-4 MILES SW OF AUGUSTA KY     TREES DOWN ON ROUTE 8
           BRACKEN                        BARN BLOWN DOWN

650 PM     3 MILES N OF MT OLIVET  KY     STATE HIGHWAY BARN ROOF
           ROBERTSON                      TORN OFF

840 PM     NW OF SPRINGFIELD       OH     MANY TREES DOWN ALONG
           NW CLARK                       TECUMSEH ROAD

DIAN

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, 8:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Madison	19 min
May 8, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Madison	34 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

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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.