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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 18, 1997Delaware County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 4:13 AM EDT for Delaware County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 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: May 18, 1997, 4:13 AM EDT (08:13 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1997, 4:55 AM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Delaware County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

655 
WUUS01 KILN 180815 RRA
SVRILN
OHC041-180855-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
413 AM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 455 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL OHIO

   ...DELAWARE COUNTY
 
AT 410 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WILMINGTON
DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES WEST OF DELAWARE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...

        DELAWARE                BY 422 AM EDT
        LEWIS CENTER            BY 428 AM EDT
        KILBOURNE               BY 433 AM EDT
        I-71 AT MILE MARKER 125 BY 434 AM EDT
 
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 May 18, 2:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 2:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
245 AM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

MID SFC ANLYS SHWG WRM FNT JUST N OF CMH/DAY...FNT FCST TO MV NORTH TDY
AS PLAINS LO APPCHS.

TOUGH FCST W/O PCGRIDDS DATA. ANYHOW RDG PASSES THRU REGION TDY W/
TEMPS FINALLY REACHING 80 IN THE METRO AREAS. W/ THE HEAT ALSO COMES
INSTABILITY. GARP ETA DATA INDICATING CAPES SHUD RECH 1500 DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND CLOSER TO 1000 BY EVE. S/W MVNG THRU RDG ADDS SM LIFT TNT
PASSING THRU BY 00Z. JET DYNAMICS NOT CONDUCIVE TO LIKELY POPS OR
WIDESPREAD OUTBREAK...BUT INSTAB ENUF FOR CHC POPS OVER METRO AREAS AND
LIKELY IN THE NORTHERN PART OF CWA. 50-60KT 850 JET PASSES FROM INDIANA
INTO NRN OH BETWEEN AFTERNOON AND MIDNITE BUT NO REAL GOOD UPPER DVRG.
VERY GOOD SHEAR SHUD LEAD TO HI HELICITY THIS AFTERNOON DECREASING SOME
BY EVENING. STRG S/W FLO SHUD LEAD TO TEMPS NEAR MOS #/S.

EVEN AS VORT LOBE SWINGS OUT OF REGION OVRNITE...INSTAB REMAINS AND
APPCH OF RR QUAD OF UPR JET MVNG INTO GRT LKS SHUD GIVE ENUF LIFT FOR
LIKELY RW/TRW. TEMPS SHUD NOT DROP MUCH IN STRG SW FLO.

POSS OF MCS DVLPMENT ALG WRM FNT IN MI TNT...SHUD DROP SE AS PER FCSTD
THCK EAST OF OUR REGION. THIS CUD ROB SOME OF THE MOIST FROM OUR
REGION...BUT WE'LL SEE.

MONDAY...INSTAB REMAINS OVER REGION W/ CAPES ARND 1200 AND LI/S OF -2.
SLOWING CD FNT DRAGGING ACRS REGION SHUD LEAD TO LIKELY RW/TRW ONCE
AGAIN. NGM/ETA HAV FNT FROM SC OH INTO KY BY 00Z TUES W/ ETA JUST A BIT
SLOWER. FNT SHUD SLOW UP AS MVS INTO PARRALEL FLO REACHING CVG/CMH ARND
20Z. FNT SHUD MV LIMA IN THE AM. MAY WANT TO GO W/ RW/TRW LIKELY MAINLY
IN THE MORNING FOR THE LIMA AREA...REST OF REGION CAN PROB JUST GO
RW/TRW LIKELY.

SELS JUST PUT OUR REGION IN DAY 1 MODERATE AREA...WILL ISSUE SPS FOR
SEVERE POTENTIAL LATER THIS MORNING.

CVG 84/65/80 378
DAY 83/65/78 487
CMH 83/65/80 487

FARINA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 3:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	43 min
May 18, 5:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	44 min
May 18, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	37 min
May 18, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Allen, Hardin	29 min
May 18, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Allen	41 min
May 18, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark	30 min
May 18, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign	27 min
May 18, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Madison, Union	28 min
May 18, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	46 min
May 18, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	38 min
May 18, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	34 min
May 18, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	44 min

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.