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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 8, 1998Licking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 2:29 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 1998, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1998, 3:10 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Licking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 8, 1:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Apr 8, 10:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 10:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 8, 1:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 8, 1:50 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 2:25 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 2:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	43 min
Apr 8, 2:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	47 min
Apr 8, 3:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	63 min
Apr 8, 3:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Highland	31 min
Apr 8, 3:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clinton, Highland	31 min
Apr 8, 3:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	3 hr
Apr 8, 4:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	59 min
Apr 8, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	50 min
Apr 8, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	50 min
Apr 8, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	62 min
Apr 8, 2:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone	33 min
Apr 8, 2:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Boone	3 hr
Apr 8, 2:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Boone	50 min
Apr 8, 3:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	45 min
Apr 8, 3:37 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	118 min
Apr 8, 1:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	49 min
Apr 8, 1:21 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Switzerland	49 min
Apr 8, 1:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio	61 min
Apr 8, 2:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Switzerland	44 min
Apr 8, 2:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Dearborn	118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1998 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.