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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 15, 1997Paulding County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1997, 8:19 PM EDT for Paulding County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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
Aug 15, 1997, 8:19 PM EDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 1997, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Paulding County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1997-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1189 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1997-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPutnam33 min
Aug 16, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPaulding63 min
Aug 16, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPutnam61 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.