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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Northern Indiana

August 15, 1997Defiance County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1997, 8:12 PM EDT for Defiance County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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
Aug 15, 1997, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 1997, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County Defiance County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 15, 8:40 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 65Defiance, 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 nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1997-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1189 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1997-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFWA 160012 RRA
SVRFWA
OHC039-160115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
712 PM EST (812 PM EDT) FRI AUG 15 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EST (915 PM EDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
 
   ...DEFIANCE COUNTY
 
AT 707 PM EST/807 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
HICKVILLE OHIO OR 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MPH. THE CITIES OF HICKSVILLE AND DEFIANCE ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  rDAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 9:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance, Williams68 min

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.