Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1997, 6:48 PM EDT for Butler County, Warren County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1997, 7:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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, 7:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Waynesville, OH | Roof blown off a building and numerous trees downed. |
| Jul 2, 7:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Lebanon, OH |
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, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 022249 RRA TORILN OHC017-165-022335- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 648 PM EDT WED JUL 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 735 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO ...BUTLER COUNTY ...WARREN COUNTY AT 646 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY...ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF MIDDLETOWN. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT AREAS BETWEEN MIDDLETOWN...LEBANON AND MIDDLEBORO BY 735 PM EDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. A GOOD ALTERNATIVE SHELTER IS AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSEST ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Franklin | 62 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, 6:52 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 |
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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.