Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 8:35 PM EDT for Defiance County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 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 8, 1997, 8:35 PM EDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Defiance County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:12 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Near Defiance, 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 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 090036 RRA SVRFWA OHC039-090130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 735 PM EST (835 PM EDT) TUE JUL 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EST (930 PM EDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...DEFIANCE COUNTY AT 830 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO OR 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE CITY OF DEFIANCE OHIO IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM THREATENS YOUR AREA! $ A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Williams | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 10:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Defiance | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.