Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 16, 1997, 8:30 PM EST for 27 counties in Indiana; Cass County, Michigan; 35 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1997, 8:30 PM EST (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Madison County, IN, Miami County, IN, Noble County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Cass County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Ross County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Cass, Saint Joseph | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 8:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 9:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Paulding, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Whitley | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Whitley | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Allen, Auglaize | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 3666 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 14.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Highland, Pike, Scioto | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.