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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 26, 1997Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 1997, 10:56 PM EDT for Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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: Jul 26, 1997, 10:56 PM EDT (02:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1997, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Van Wert 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
Jul 26, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 4383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1206 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 13.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 270255 RRA
TORILN
OHC161-270400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1056 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO

   ...VAN WERT COUNTY
 
AT 1055 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO DEVELOPING ALONG
THE STATE LINE NEAR ROUTE 30 IN THE VICINITY OF DIXON. THE STORM
WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL TRACK TOWARDS THE CITY
OF VAN WERT DOWN ROUTE 30.
 
VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES OFFER NO SHELTER FROM A TORNADO. LEAVE
THEM IMMEDIATELY FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. IF THERE IS NO
BUILDING AVAILABLE AND YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LIE FLAT IN A
DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DO NOT STAND UP TO
WATCH THE TORNADO.

FARINA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Licking	22 min
Jul 26, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	61 min
Jul 26, 8:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Fairfield	65 min
Jul 26, 8:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Fairfield	65 min
Jul 26, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Paulding, Putnam	61 min
Jul 26, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	62 min
Jul 26, 10:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Licking	48 min
Jul 26, 10:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Licking	48 min
Jul 26, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	46 min
Jul 26, 10:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	49 min
Jul 26, 10:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	64 min
Jul 26, 10:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Van Wert	64 min
Jul 26, 10:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Licking	2 hr
Jul 26, 10:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Fairfield	48 min
Jul 26, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	59 min
Jul 26, 11:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	4 hr
Jul 27, 12:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Licking	3 hr
Jul 27, 12:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	35 min
Jul 27, 1:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	60 min
Jul 27, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	47 min
Jul 27, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Shelby	38 min
Jul 27, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Miami	44 min
Jul 27, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin	46 min
Jul 27, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	50 min
Jul 27, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	47 min
Jul 27, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	44 min
Jul 27, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	49 min
Jul 27, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	42 min
Jul 27, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	31 min
Jul 27, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	63 min
Jul 27, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	40 min
Jul 27, 7:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	3 hr

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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.