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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 19, 1997Licking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1997, 8:27 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 19, 1997, 8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1997, 9:25 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Licking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 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.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 200028 RRA
SVRILN
OHC089-200125-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
827 PM EDT THU JUN 19 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 925 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL OHIO

   ...LICKING COUNTY
 
AT 825 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WILMINGTON
DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 5 MILES WEST OF NEWARK...NEAR
GRANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
        NEWARK                  BY 846 PM EDT
        HEATH                   BY 850 PM EDT
        TOBOSO                  BY 915 PM EDT

DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED
FOR A STURDIER STRUCTURE.

DANGELO

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 Jun 19, 3:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
315 PM EDT THU JUN 19 1997

LTST SFC ANLYS HAS STA BNDRY REMAINING OVR NRN OH/SRN LWR MI...BUT ERN
EDGE OF BNDRY STARTING TO SAG S A BIT. SOME VERY WK BNDRYS IN ILN FA
ATTM...AND ARE APPRNT ON ILN 88D. SHRA- AND PSBL LOW TOPPED TSRA- MOVG
INTO CNTRL OH ATTM...BUT WEAKENING AND MAINLY N OF CMH. BNDRY APRS TO
TRAIL ALL THE WAY S TO SW OH...BUT ADAP INDICATING THAT BEST MSTR
CONVERGENCE IS OVR CNTRL/NRN OH AND SINKING ESE. DON/T XPCT TOO MUCH TO
DVLP ALNG THIS WK BNDRY INTO ERLY EVE...BUT MTN OF SHRA AND PSBL TSRA
IN AN EVE PD FOR CNTRL AND S CNTRL OH IS PROBABLY BEST.

FOR TNGT...STILL SOME LL MSTR LINGERING. AND WTH ONLY THIN CI AND LIGHT
WNDS...SOME BR IS PSBL IN VALLEY AREAS. NOT LIKELY TO GO AS LOW AS THIS
AM...THOUGH.

FOR FRI...BEST THETA E ADVECTION AND UVV STAYS UP NEAR BNDRY...AND
BNDRY SEEMS TO BEGIN TO LIFT N OUT OF FA. BEST CHC OF SCT SHRA/TSRA
PSBL INTO W CNTRL AND CNTRL OH....SO LIMA AREA OF ILN FA. ESPCY WTH
CONTINUAL H8 WAA AND UL RDG ALLOWING LL MSTR TO LINGER.

SAW WRKZFP/S...LIKE POPS AND TMPS FOR MOST PART...BUT PREFER TO BUMP SW
OH DOWN TO 20 PERCENT FOR FRI.

CVG 67/88/69/90 121
DAY 66/86/68/90 142
CMH 65/87/69/89 332

DIAN

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.