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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 16, 1998Scioto County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 4:12 PM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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 16, 1998, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1998, 4:50 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Scioto County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 4:25 PM EDTHail 1Minford, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 16, 12:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 353 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
353 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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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 Jun 16, 2:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
139 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0100 PM    TOLLESBORO                KY   1 INCH HAIL
06/16/98   LEWIS

0104 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/16/98   KENTON                         TREES DOWNED  ACROSS
       (                                   NORTHERN PART OF COUNTY
Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
208 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1200 PM    GREENDALE                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/16/98   DEARBORN                       TREES DOWNED. ALSO SMALL
                                          TO MODERATE TREES DOWNED
                                          IN AUORA
Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 16, 3:48 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 8:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams, Scioto2 hr
Jun 15, 9:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNUnion119 min
Jun 16, 11:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNHamilton90 min
Jun 16, 11:26 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNButler94 min
Jun 16, 11:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler33 min
Jun 16, 11:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren47 min
Jun 16, 11:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton29 min
Jun 16, 12:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton48 min
Jun 16, 12:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Hamilton34 min
Jun 16, 12:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClermont2 hr
Jun 16, 12:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Highland48 min
Jun 16, 12:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene21 min
Jun 16, 12:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams33 min
Jun 16, 12:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown42 min
Jun 16, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPickaway50 min
Jun 16, 1:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNScioto53 min
Jun 16, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin65 min
Jun 16, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield60 min
Jun 16, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPike, Scioto49 min
Jun 16, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDelaware49 min
Jun 16, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLicking48 min
Jun 16, 2:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNScioto3 hr
Jun 16, 12:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Kenton36 min
Jun 16, 12:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMason34 min
Jun 16, 12:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis47 min
Jun 16, 1:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.