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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 18, 1997Scioto County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 6:31 PM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 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, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1997, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Scioto County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 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.

289 
WUUS01 KILN 182231 RRA
SVRILN
OHC145-182315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
631 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH OHIO
 
   ...SCIOTO COUNTY
 
AT 630 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING IN WESTERN SCIOTO COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT OTWAY AND LUCASVILLE.
 
IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE OUTDOORS WHILE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IN
PROGRESS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. SEEK SHELTER IN A BUILDING OR
A VEHICLE. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...STAY AWAY FROM TOWERS
AND TALL TREES. CROUCH NEAR THE GROUND AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
 
WILKINSON

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, 3:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
306 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

TSRA DEVELOPING ACROSS FA THIS PM WITH SOME GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
WITHIN LAST HALF HOUR IN HARDIN COUNTY NEAR ROUNDHEAD.  XPCT STORMS TO
CONTINUE TO DEVELOPING THIS PM INTO THE EVENING.  SCT STORMS POSSIBLE
THRU MON.  SHOULD HAVE MORE CLOUDS TOMORROW SO INSTABILITY WL BE
WEAKER....BUT ENUF FOR POSSIBLE SVR.  CLE...WRK ZONES LOOK GOOD.

WILKINSON,

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 5:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
513 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

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

0427 PM    LAFAYETTE                 OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   ALLEN                          ROOF BLOWN OFF BARN/POWER
                                          LINES DOWN 1 TREE DOWN

0500 PM    NEW CARLISLE              OH   .88 INCH HAIL
05/18/97   CLARK

Local storm report, May 18, 5:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
513 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

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

0427 PM    LAFAYETTE                 OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   ALLEN                          ROOF BLOWN OFF BARN/POWER
                                          LINES DOWN 1 TREE DOWN

0500 PM    NEW CARLISLE              OH   .88 INCH HAIL
05/18/97   CLARK

Local storm report, May 18, 5:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
530 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

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

0520 PM    MECHANICSBURG             OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   CHAMPAIGN                      SEVERAL TREES DOWN/ROOF
                                          BLOWN OFF BARN

Local storm report, May 18, 5:31 PM EDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
530 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

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

0520 P*M    MECHANICSBURG             OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   CHAMPAIGN                      SEVERAL TREES DOWN/ROOF
                                          BLOWN OFF BARN

Local storm report, May 18, 6:15 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
615 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

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

0545 PM    ROSEDALE                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   MADISON                        2 TREES DOWN

0552 PM    MARYSVILLE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   UNION                          SEVERAL TREES DOWN

0555 PM    DELAWARE                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   DELAWARE                       NUMEROUS TREES/POWER LINES
                                          DOWN

Local storm report, May 18, 6:16 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
615 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997

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

0545 PM    ROSEDALE                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   MADISON                        2 TREES DOWN

0552 PM    MARYSVILLE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   UNION                          SEVERAL TREES DOWN

0555 PM    DELAWARE                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
05/18/97   DELAWARE                       NUMEROUS TREES/POWER LINES
                                          DOWN

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, 4:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	42 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

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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.