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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 2, 1997Franklin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1997, 6:13 PM EDT for Franklin County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1997, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Dublin, OH	A tornado made a brief touchdown in an area where downbursts were also occurring. Several homes received minor damage and numerous trees were 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, 5:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILN 022214 RRA
TORILN
OHC049-022315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL OHIO

   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 614 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR
DUBLIN IN NORTHWEST FRANKLIN COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST
AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL CROSS COLUMBUS THROUGH 7 PM EDT.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. YOUR QUICK REACTION TO THIS TORNADO
WARNING MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE. GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
@STRONGER SHELTER. REMEMBER...MOST TORNADO DEATHS OCCUR IN MOBILE
HOMES.

FARINA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer, Van Wert	46 min
Jul 2, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	32 min
Jul 2, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	47 min
Jul 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	45 min
Jul 2, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Shelby	48 min
Jul 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Logan	48 min
Jul 2, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Preble	49 min
Jul 2, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Union	32 min
Jul 2, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark	33 min
Jul 2, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Madison	47 min
Jul 2, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	33 min
Jul 2, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	34 min
Jul 2, 6:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Montgomery	30 min
Jul 2, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	33 min
Jul 2, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	45 min
Jul 2, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	46 min
Jul 2, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	48 min
Jul 2, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery, Warren	47 min
Jul 2, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	47 min
Jul 2, 6:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Butler, Warren	47 min
Jul 2, 6:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Greene	48 min
Jul 2, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	46 min
Jul 2, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	49 min
Jul 2, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton	48 min
Jul 2, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	47 min
Jul 2, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	33 min
Jul 2, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Hamilton	33 min
Jul 2, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland, Ross	47 min
Jul 2, 7:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Warren	35 min
Jul 2, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	46 min
Jul 2, 7:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clermont	47 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.