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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 2, 1997Bracken County, Kentucky; Brown County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1997, 8:29 PM EDT for Bracken County, Kentucky; Brown County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 1997, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1997, 9:20 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bracken County, KY, Brown County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 2, 8:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Higginsport, OH	Numerous trees downed.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 2, 6:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 1249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

568 
WFUS01 KILN 030030 RRA
TORILN
KYC023-OHC015-030120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
829 PM EDT WED JUL 2 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 920 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO

   ...BROWN COUNTY

IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY

   ...BRACKEN COUNTY
 
A TORNADO WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN BROWN AND NORTHERN BRACKEN
COUNTIES. TORNADO REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM SEVERAL LOCATIONS
NEAR THE TOWN OF MOSCOW IN SOUTHERN CLERMONT COUNTY. THE STORM
PRODUCING THIS TORNADO IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 9:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Mason	49 min
Jul 2, 10:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Lewis	2 hr
Jul 2, 8:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland	33 min
Jul 2, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Pike	41 min
Jul 2, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	44 min
Jul 2, 9:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Brown	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.