Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 17, 1997Clinton County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 8:49 PM EDT for Clinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 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 17, 1997, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1997, 9:20 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Clinton County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1997-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1870 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1997-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 159 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1870 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
7.9

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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, 8:42 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 8:42 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
840 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997

ONE LAST HURRAH!  A MULTITUDE OF SVR WX HAS OCCURRED AND IS STILL
OCCURRG.  LAST SVR LINE LEFT IS E OF LUK AND WL BE APPROACHG PMH NWRD
AROUND 9 PM.  IT IS MOVG QUICKLY AND APPEARS TO HAVE WEAKENED COMPARED
TO WHEN IT WAS NR THE OH-IN BORDER.  WIND DAMAGE STILL A THREAT AS THIS
LINE IS BOWING INTO ADAMS COUNTY.  N AND W OF THIS LINE SHRA ARE LEFT
WITH MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS N AND W OF A LINE FM FDY-MIE.  THE SVR LINE
IS ALSO DUMPG EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN AND WOULD XPCT SOME FLOODG
CONDITIONS ATTM AROUND CVG AND CMH METRO AREAS S AND EWRD.

WAVE OF SFC LOW PRES JUST E OF CVG ATTM WITH FNTL BNDRY EXTNDG ENE. WAVE
ALSO REFLECTION OF VIGOROUS VORT MAX WHICH IS CLOSE BY.  BEHIND
WAVE/VORT MAX DO NOT XPCT TSRA...ONLY SHRA...AND THESE WL DIMINISH MOVG
N AND W. ANY FLOODG WL BE CONTINUING PAST UPDATE TIME BUT MAIN RAIN WL
BE GONE SO WL HANDLE ANY FLOODG LOCALLY BUT NO NEED FOR FF WATCH BY
THEN. ALSO...NO SVR STORMS XPCTD AFT UPDATE TIME.  FOR LIMA AND DAY
GROUPS...SCT -SHRA WL DIMINISH.  FARTHER S AND E...OCCASIONAL SHRA WL
BECOME SCT AND END LATE.  LOW TEMPS LOOK O.K.  LWR HUMIDITY WL WORK
SWRD ON MON FOR MUCH BETTER WX.

SANDLER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 17, 7:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
740 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997

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

0655 PM    DOVER                     IN   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/17/97   DEARBORN                       TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN.

0723 PM    HARRISON                  OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/17/97   HAMILTON                       GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.

0725 PM                              OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97   BUTLER                         TREES DOWN ON ROAD NEAR
                                          SHANDON.

0730 PM    CHEVIOT                   OH   70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/17/97   HAMILTON                       NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES
                                          DOWN.
Local storm report, Aug 17, 7:51 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
752 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997

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

0748 PM                              OH   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/17/97   CLERMONT                       WIND GUST EXCEEDING 60
                                          MILES AN HOUR IN
                                          NORTHWESTERN PT 2OF CTY.
Local storm report, Aug 17, 7:52 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
752 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997

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

0748 PM                              OH   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/17/97   CLERMONT                       WIND GUST EXCEEDING 60
                                          MILES AN HOUR IN
                                          NORTHWESTERN PT OF CTY.
Local storm report, Aug 17, 8:25 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
825 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997

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

0812 PM    LEBANON                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97   WARREN                         TREES DOWN.

0820 PM    PLEASANT PLAIN            OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97   WARREN                         TREES DOWN.
Local storm report, Aug 17, 8:29 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
830 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997

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

0800 PM    OKEANA                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97   BUTLER                         TREES DOWN ON HOWARDS
                                          CREEK ROAD.
Local storm report, Aug 17, 8:30 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
830 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997

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

0800 PM    OKEANA                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97   BUTLER                         TREES DOWN ON HOWARDS
                                          CREEK ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 9:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClinton2 hr

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.