Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 17, 1997, 7:31 PM EDT for Hamilton 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
- Aug 17, 1997, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 8:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamilton County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 172331 RRA TORILN OHC061-180035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 731 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO ...HAMILTON COUNTY AT 730 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR CHEVOIT. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO ARE NORWOOD AND MADERIA. 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. KELLS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Aug 17, 3:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 3:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 300 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997 SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING AND TIME IS SHORT. BRIEFLY...STRONG TO SEVERE TSTMS MOVG THRU CWA AT THIS TIME. STRONGEST ACTIVITY WL PUSH E OF CWA BY THIS EVE...BUT SHRA/ISOLD TSRA WL LINGER THRU EVE AT THRU AT LEAST FIRST HALF OF NITE N AND UNTIL AFTER MIDNITE S. IN GENERAL... SFC FRNT WL GRADUALLY SETTLE THRU AND S OF REGION OVERNITE. CONTINUE FLASH FLOOD WATCHES AS CURRNTLY IN PLACE...CAN LIKELY DISCONTINUE EARLY EVE SE IN AND BY LATE EVE UPDATE PKG FOR OH AREAS. STILL LOTS OF POST-FRNTL LO CLDS...SO MAY TAKE UNTIL LATER MON AM UNTIL CLDS BEGIN TO BREAK UP ACRS REGION...POERHAPS NOT UNTIL AFTN S. MOS TMPS IN AGREEMNT AND WL STAY CLOSE. CVG 66/80/61/80 8000 DAY 59/77/56/78 8000 CMH 62/77/58/79 9000 ROWLEY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
401 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
02330 PM OTWAY OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 SCIOTO LARGE TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN NEAR OTWAY.Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
401 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM OTWAY OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 SCIOTO LARGE TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN NEAR OTWAY.Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
406 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0355 PM GARRISON KY WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 LEWIS TREES DOWN BETWEEN
GARRISON AND VANCEBURG.Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
424 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 PM IN WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 RIPLEY GRAIN BIN DAMAGED IN SE
PART OF RIPLEY COUNTY.
0230 PM CINCINNATI LUNKEN FLD OH 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/17/97 HAMILTON 52 KNOT TSTM GUST
RECORDED.
0300 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 PENDLETON TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
0315 PM MAYSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 MASON A FEW TREES DOWN EAST OF
MAYSVILLE.
0344 PM WEST UNION OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 ADAMS GARAGE PARTIALLY DESTROYED
2 MILES NORTH OF WEST
UNION.Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
443 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM SARDINIA OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 BROWN MANY TREES DOWN.
0340 PM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 ADAMS MANY TREES DOWN AND DAMAGE
IN A WEST TO EAST PATH
ACROSS THE COUNTY. DAMAGE
MAY BE DUE TO A
TORNADO...INVESTIGATION
NEEDED.Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
445 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0245 PM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 CLERMONT TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Putnam | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Paulding, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Allen, Auglaize | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 41 min |
| Aug 17, 11:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 38 min |
| Aug 17, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Licking | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Adams | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Warren | 66 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.