Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 7:04 PM EDT for Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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
- May 31, 1998, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 7:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Preble County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | New Paris, OH | Numerous trees 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 31, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 240 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 18Z KILN RAOB AVAILABLE ON AFOS...CAPE >4000 AND WK H8 CAP WL BE OVERCOME SHORTLY BY SFC HEATING...SO CONDITIONS IN PLACE FOR SVR WX OUTBREAK ACRS CWA THIS AFTN/EVE. SVR TSTMS NOW FIRING ALONG PRE-FRONTAL TROF JUST AHEAD OF COLD FRNT... AND TSTMS INTENSIFYING ACRS CNTL IN WITHIN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. COLD FRNT WL STILL BE N OF OH RVR BY 0Z AND WL LIKELY NOT CLR S/E CWA COUNTIES BEFORE MIDNITE. TSTMS WL END ACRS NW COUNTIES BY LATE AFTN BUT WL CONT ACRS CNTL S SECTIONS INTO THIS EVE...SO CATEGORICAL POPS IN ORDER CNTL EARLY EVE AND S TIL 4Z-6Z. COOLER...DRIER AIRMASS WILL THEN PUSH INTO REGION OVERNITE AND WL REMAIN IN PLACE THRU MON. HI TMPS MON WL ACTUALLY BE BLO NORMAL FOR JUN 1. NEXT SYSTEM WL APPROACH QUICKLY IN FAST FLW REGIME LATER MON NITE. SW FLW/WAA WL INTENSIFY...AND CONDITIONS APPR FAVORABLE FOR ANOTHER MCS TO DEVELOP ACRS GREAT LAKES AND PUSH THROUGH OR JUST N OF XTRM N CWA COUNTIES EARLY TUE AM...SO CHC POPS IN ORDER ACRS FAR N LATE MON NITE. FARTHER S...MSTR CONVERGC IMPRESSIVE AND INSTABILITY INCR WITHIN N/S BAND...INTO W CWA COUNTIES BY 12Z TUE...SHRA/TSRA CUD DEVELOP WITHIN THIS WAA BAND. HOWEVER...DEEPEST MSTR FOCUSED AT MID LVLS...AND MAY ONLY PRODUCE SPRINKLES/FEW -SHRA WITH RELATIVELY DRY AIR AT SFC. TUE...MANY SIMILARITIES TO TDAS SCENARIO...EXCEPT SFC DWPTS SHUD BE SOMEWHAT LOWER. WARM SECTOR WL SPREAD INTO CWA ON STRONG SW BREEZE... AND COLD FRNT WL THEN PUSH INTO REGION DURG AFTN/EVE AND WL LIKELY PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG/SVR TSTMS. CVG 57/73/59/85 8026 DAY 52/71/56/81 7026 CMH 53/72/54/82 7016 PRT 60/75/54/86 8015 ROWLEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:11 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
OHZ063>065-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 311 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL OHIO COUNTIES OF FAYETTE...PICKAWAY AND FAIRFIELD EXPIRED AT 3 PM EDT. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL INTO THIS EVENING...SO YOU ARE STRONGLY URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. ROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:11 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
OHZ063>065-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 311 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL OHIO COUNTIES OF FAYETTE...PICKAWAY AND FAIRFIELD EXPIRED AT 3 PM EDT. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL INTO THIS EVENING...SO YOU ARE STRONGLY URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. ROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
OHZ056-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 315 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR LICKING COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM EDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10 PM EDT...FOR LICKING COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO. A STRONG COLD FRONT WAS PRODUCING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND WEST OF LICKING COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH INTO THE COUNTY BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE TORNADOES...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING RAPIDLY...SO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
OHZ045-046-051>055-060>064-070>073-077>082-088-INZ058-059-066- 073>075-080-KYZ089>100-010200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 415 PM EDT (315 PM EST) SUN MAY 31 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT (9 PM EST)... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10 PM EDT (9 PM EST)...FOR MOST OF CENTRAL OHIO...MUCH OF THE MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...ALL OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA...ALL OF SOUTHERN OHIO AND ALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY. CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE CINCINNATI...BROOKVILLE...DAYTON... COLUMBUS AND MAYSVILLE. FOR THE OHIO COUNTIES OF MIAMI...CHAMPAIGN...CLARK...UNION... MADISON...DELAWARE AND FRANKLIN...THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REPLACES THE WATCH THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WAS APPROACHING THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON...AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS AND WERE INTENSIFYING ACROSS PARTS OF OHIO AND INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST INTO THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ANY THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY...SO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES AND POSSBLE WARNINGS. ROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 31, 6:45 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
OHZ065-073-010400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 645 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH VALID UNTIL 1 AM EDT. THIS TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE OHIO COUNTIES OF FAIRFIELD AND HOCKING. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES WHICH ARE VALID UNTIL 10 PM EDT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION THIS EVENING. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED AHEAD OF THIS FRONT ACROSS THE NORTHERN MIAMI VALLEY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST INTO THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ANY THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE TORNADOES...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS... AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR WARNINGS THAT MAY BE ISSUED. PARKER
Special weather statement, May 31, 6:45 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
OHZ065-073-010400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 645 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH VALID UNTIL 1 AM EDT. THIS TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE OHIO COUNTIES OF FAIRFIELD AND HOCKING. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES WHICH ARE VALID UNTIL 10 PM EDT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION THIS EVENING. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED AHEAD OF THIS FRONT ACROSS THE NORTHERN MIAMI VALLEY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST INTO THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ANY THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE TORNADOES...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS... AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR WARNINGS THAT MAY BE ISSUED. PARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 59 min |
| May 31, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 50 min |
| May 31, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 35 min |
| May 31, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 40 min |
| May 31, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 49 min |
| May 31, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin, Logan | 49 min |
| May 31, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 48 min |
| May 31, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Clinton | 49 min |
| May 31, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll | 64 min |
| May 31, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Carroll | 65 min |
| May 31, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 63 min |
| May 31, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Wayne | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.