Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 11:47 AM EDT for Pike County, Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 min. 3 reports 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
- Aug 17, 1997, 11:47 AM EDT (15:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 12:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 12:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Camp, OH | Many large trees downed. |
| Aug 17, 12:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Rarden, OH | Several trees downed, one of which fell on a car. |
| Aug 17, 12:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Byington, OH | Several trees downed. |
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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Aug 17, 9:23 AM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 9:23 AM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 920 AM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997 OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM LAST NIGHT HAS TEMPORARILY STABILIZED AREAS ALONG/N OF OH RVR. AT THIS TIME...ONLY AREAS OF -RA ACRS CNTL/N SECTIONS OF CWA. HOWEVER...WX WL DETERIORATE FROM W TO E THIS AM/EARLY THIS AFTN. SFC WV HAS DEVELOPED ON OUFLOW BOUNDARY INVOF SE IL...AND NUMEROUS TSRA HAVE DEVELOPED ACRS S IND WHERE SFC DWPTS IN MID 70S ARE OVERUNNING OUTFLW BNDRY. THESE TSRA WL PUSH INTO CNTL/S SECTIONS OF CWA THIS AM/EARLY PM WITH AT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND ISOLD SEVERE PSBL ACRS S AS SS HELPS DESTABILIZE ATMOSPHERE. MEANWHILE...MAIN SFC FRNT STILL LOCATED N OF CWA...PROGGED TO SETTLE TWD S AND INTO N SECTIONS OF CWA THIS AFTN AS SFC LO IN E IA TRACKS TWD REGION. SHRA/TSRA SHUD BECOME HEAVIER/MORE NUMEROUS ACRS N HLF OF CWA DUE TO THIS FEATURE. POTENTIAL FOR HVR RAFL EXISTS ACRS ENTIRE CWA THIS AFTN INTO TONITE... AND ADDL FLASH FLOOD WATCHES (ALREADY IN PLACE FOR WAYNE/FAYETTE/UNION COS IN E CNTL IN) APPR TO BE IN ORDER FOR REST OF CWA COUNTIES ALONG/N OF OH RVR PER CURRNT TRENDS. CATEGORICAL POPS IN ORDER ALL AREAS. DUE TO RELATIVELY COOL START BEHIND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AND INPENDING ONSET OF ADDL PCPN...CURRNT FCST HI TMPS MAY BE A BIT TOO HI FOR MANY LOCATIONS ALNG/N OF OH RVR...ESP RICH-DAY-LIMA. ACRS S CNTL OH/N KY... STILL MAY CLIMB INTO UPR 80S...AND THREAT FOR PM SVR GREATEST THERE PER LTST SPC DY1 OUTLOOK. dROWLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Putnam | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Paulding, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Allen, Auglaize | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 41 min |
| Aug 17, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Licking | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Adams | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Warren | 66 min |
| Aug 17, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 33 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.