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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 28, 1997Adams County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 10:57 PM EST for Adams County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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: Mar 28, 1997, 10:57 PM EST (03:57 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 11:30 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Adams 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
Mar 28, 7:30 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 Mar 28, 8:20 PM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 8:20 PM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
820 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997

EVENING SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED A LOW PRES ACROSS LMICH WITH A CDFNT
TRAILING SWD ACROSS IL.  BACK EDGE OF CONVECTION PRESENTLY APPROACHING
THE IL-IN BORDER.  NMRS REPORTS OF HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED ACROSS SERN
IN AND NRN KY IN OUR CWA.  XPCT THIS TO CONTINUE ALONG WITH A WIND
DAMAGE THREAT.  CURRENT FCSTS HAVE THIS IN HAND.

WILKINSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 7:18 PM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes before

OHZ042-051-053>055-060>064-070>073-077>082-088-KYZ090>100-290600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
718 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EST SATURDAY FOR SOUTHWESTERN
   OHIO AND MUCH OF CENTRAL OHIO INCLUDING THE MIAMI VALLEY...

SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE CINCINNATI...DAYTON...COLUMBUS AND
PORTSMOUTH.

A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE OHIO VALLEY
THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.  MANY OF THE STORMS HAVE
ALREADY PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AND A FEW HAVE PRODUCED TORNADOES.

THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY DURING
THE EVENING HOURS AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...WIND DAMAGE
AND EVEN TORNADOES.

RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY SHOULD KEEP
AN EYE TO THE WESTERN SKY AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
FURTHER DETAILS.

WILKINSON

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 7:21 PM EST, 3 hours 36 minutes before

OHZ042-051-053>055-060>064-070>073-077>082-088-KYZ090>100-290600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
718 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EST SATURDAY FOR SOUTHWESTERN
   OHIO AND MUCH OF CENTRAL OHIO INCLUDING THE MIAMI VALLEY AS WELL AS
   MUCH OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY...

SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE CINCINNATI...DAYTON...COLUMBUS AND
PORTSMOUTH.

A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE OHIO VALLEY
THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.  MANY OF THE STORMS HAVE
ALREADY PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AND A FEW HAVE PRODUCED TORNADOES.

THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY DURING
THE EVENING HOURS AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...WIND DAMAGE
AND EVEN TORNADOES.

RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY SHOULD KEEP
AN EYE TO THE WESTERN SKY AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
FURTHER DETAILS.

WILKINSON

...CORRECTED TO ADD NORTHERN KENTUCKY IN LEAD SENTENCE...

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 10:25 PM EST, 32 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 8:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	27 min
Mar 28, 8:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clinton	35 min
Mar 28, 8:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	48 min
Mar 28, 9:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	52 min
Mar 28, 9:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	52 min
Mar 28, 9:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	46 min
Mar 28, 9:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	46 min
Mar 28, 9:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	44 min
Mar 28, 9:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	47 min
Mar 28, 10:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clinton, Highland	38 min
Mar 28, 10:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	38 min
Mar 28, 7:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Carroll	31 min
Mar 28, 8:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Carroll	25 min
Mar 28, 9:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin, Owen	39 min
Mar 28, 9:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	36 min
Mar 28, 7:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio	38 min
Mar 28, 7:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	50 min
Mar 28, 8:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ohio, Switzerland	47 min
Mar 28, 8:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn	47 min
Mar 28, 8:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	34 min
Mar 28, 8:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Wayne	51 min
Mar 28, 8:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley	54 min
Mar 28, 9:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ohio, Switzerland	59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.