Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 9:31 PM EDT for Paulding County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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
- Jul 8, 1997, 9:31 PM EDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Paulding County, OH
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 702 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1294 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 090134 RRA SVRILN OHC125-090230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 931 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO ...PAULDING COUNTY AT 930 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN ALLEN COUNTY INDIANA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ANTWERP...PAULDING AND MELROSE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS SINCE THEY CAN EASILY SHATTER IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR APPLIANCES UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. RANDALL
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 Jul 8, 2:27 PM EDT, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:27 PM EDT, 7 hours 4 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 226 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1997 EARLY PM SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED LOW PRES OVR LMICH WITH A WARM FNT ACROSS LWR MI AND CDFNT TRAILING BACK ACROSS NRN IL INTO ERN IA. DEWPOINTS ACROSS IN HAD CLIMBED INTO THE LWR 70S. MODELS PROG THE LOW TO TRACK ACROSS LAKE ERIE INTO WRN NY OVERNIGHT. CDFNT PROGD TO SINK ACROSS STATE BY WED PM. PREFER SLOWER AND WETTER ETA MODEL SINCE FNT HAS SHOWN LITTLE SWD MOVEMENT TODAY AND MODELS UNDERESTIMATING LLVL MOISTURE. LATEST AREA 88D SCANS INDICATE THAT SHRA DEVELOPING ACROSS NRN IN. XPCT THIS AREA TO EXPAND INTO NWRN OH THIS EVENING...BUT BEST DYNAMICS WL STAY WELL N OF FA. AS CDFNT SAGS ACROSS FA OVERNIGHT XPCT TSRA TO DROP TOWARD DAY-CMH AROUND MIDNIGHT AND SRN FA AFT MIDNIGHT. SVR POSSIBLE VC LIMA BUT ACTIVITY SHOULD WEAKEN BEFORE IT GETS FURTHER S. CDFNT WL MOVE TO SRN FA BY WED PM. WL NEED TO KEEP CHC ACROSS SRN 2/3 FA FOR WED. BEHIND FNT MODELS PROG PLENTY OF LLVL MOISTURE SO SKIES SHOULD STAY MOSTLY CLOUDY. CLEARING SKIES LOOK GOOD ON WED NIGHT AND THEN SUNNY AND PLEASANT ON THU. CVG 65/80/60/80 4400 DAY 65/78/57/79 6300 CMH 66/78/58/80 6300 WILKINSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 9:20 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>062-INZ050-058> 059-090700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 920 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1997 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM EDT (2 AM EST)... ...THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL OHIO EXPIRED AT 9 PM EDT... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA AND OHIO OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED ALONG THE COLD FRONT LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO PUSH SOUTH INTO WEST CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE THUDERSTORMS WILL THEN MOVE INTO EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...THE MIAMI VALLEY AND CENTRAL OHIO LATER TONIGHT. WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LOTT
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 9:22 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>062-INZ050-058> 059-090700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 920 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1997 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM EDT (2 AM EST)... ...THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL OHIO EXPIRED AT 9 PM EDT... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA AND OHIO OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED ALONG THE COLD FRONT LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO PUSH SOUTH INTO WEST CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE THUDERSTORMS WILL THEN MOVE INTO EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...THE MIAMI VALLEY AND CENTRAL OHIO LATER TONIGHT. WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH bAND GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Putnam | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 10:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Putnam | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 11:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Paulding | 119 min |
| Jul 9, 12:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Putnam | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 12:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Allen | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 12:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 1:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.