Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1996, 4:11 PM EST for Montgomery County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 4:11 PM EST (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 4:40 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
024 WFUS01 KILN 072112 RRA TORILN OHC113-072145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 411 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 440 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 410 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR NEW LEBANON. THE TORNADO IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH TOWARD THE TOWN OF GREENVIEW. THIS TORNADO WARNING MEANS YOU ARE IN IMMEDIATE DANGER. TAKE COVER NOW. BASEMENTS OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. SMALL ROOMS...CLOSETS OR INTERIOR BATHROOMS NEAR THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS ARE GOOD ALTERNATIVES. REMEMBER THAT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN ALSO OCCUR NEAR TORNADOES. INNES
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 Nov 7, 3:09 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 7, 3:09 PM EST, 1 hour 2 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, 5 hours 17 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, 2 hours 23 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.
| 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, 4:20 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, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clinton | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.