Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 14, 1997Clinton County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1997, 3:43 PM EDT for Clinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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: Jul 14, 1997, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1997, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Clinton County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 4:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Burtonville, OH	Several trees knocked down.

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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 2 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: 184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 141944 RRA
SVRILN
OHC027-142045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
343 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO

   ...CLINTON COUNTY
 
AT 340 PM EDT...A SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR COWAN LAKE.
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING EAST AROUND
10 MPH AND WILL TRACK ACROSS CUBA...BURTONSVILLE AND NEW ANTIOCH.
THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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.

FARINA

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 14, 2:48 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:48 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
248 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1997

TRW POPPING THIS AFT ACRS TRI-ST AREA...SLOW-MVRS...BUT NO HAIL OR WIND
AS OF YET. WBZ PRETTY HI AT 13KFT THIS AM AND UPR LVL WNDS CONT TO BE
PRETTY LIGHT. UPR LVL WNDS FROM THE EAST HWVR...ARE PROVIDING A LTL UPR
DVRG AND THIS CUD BE HELPING TRW TO DVLP. FEW TOPS TO 45KFT.

SHUD SEE ACTIVITY DIE AFT SUNSET AS MAINLY DIURNALLY DRIVEN. WILL PROB
HAVE TO WAIT TIL TUES FOR MORE TRW. CUD BE SOONER FOR NW OHIO CLOSER TO
CRNT ACTIVITY AND FNT.

THINKING PARTLY CLOUDY OVRNITE W/ WRM TEMPS ARND 70 MOST AREAS.ISOLD
TRW CUD POP UP OR ADVT IN BUT THINKING VERY LO POPS IF ANY.

FOR TUES...AM TRW POSS IN NW OHIO W/ POPS DROPPING TO NR ZERO BY
AFTERNOON THERE. FOR REST OF THE REGION...THINKING 40 POPS JUST ABT
EVERYWHERE AS FNT MVS INTO LIMA AREA BY MIDDAY AND PROB LEADING TROF
MVNG THRU REST OF REGION. PARTLY CLOUDY...TEMPS SHUD CONT TO BE WRM AND
CUD BE CLOSE TO 90 ONCE AGAIN. HUMID.

FNT WILL BE SLOW MVNG AND SHUD BE MVNG OUT OF OUR REGION ARND MIDNITE
TO EARLY AM WED. CONT OF HOT BHND FNT. GUID TEMPS LOOK PRETTY HI FOR
WED AFT FNTL PASSAGE.

CVG 70/89/65/88 24-0
DAY 70/87/65/88 24-0
CMH 68/88/65/88 24-0

FARINA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:23 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
323 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1997

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

0315 PM    MASON                     OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97   WARREN                         TREES DOWN

0320 PM    NORWOOD                   OH   .75 INCH HAIL
07/14/97   HAMILTON                       DIME SIZE HAIL

Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:26 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
323 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1997

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

0315 PM    MASON                     OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97   WARREN                         TREES DOWN

0320 PM    NORWOOD                   OH   .75 INCH HAIL
07/14/97   HAMILTON                       DIME SIZE HAIL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	64 min
Jul 14, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	61 min
Jul 14, 3:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Warren	2 hr
Jul 14, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	60 min
Jul 14, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.