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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 14, 1998Owen County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 8:02 PM EDT for Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 14, 1998, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Owen County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 8:15 PM EDT	Hail 1	Perry Park, KY

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 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: 98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 14, 2:50 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:50 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 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
Jun 14, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	34 min
Jun 14, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	20 min
Jun 14, 10:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Brown	3 hr
Jun 14, 11:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Adams, Scioto	2 hr
Jun 15, 3:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	118 min
Jun 15, 4:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Darke	46 min
Jun 15, 5:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Montgomery	34 min
Jun 15, 6:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clinton	46 min
Jun 14, 8:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Gallatin, Grant	33 min
Jun 14, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Kenton	34 min
Jun 14, 11:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Lewis	2 hr
Jun 14, 10:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Wayne	2 hr
Jun 15, 2:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Wayne	118 min
Jun 15, 4:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Wayne	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.