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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 26, 1998Hocking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 11:15 PM EDT for Hocking County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 26, 1998, 11:15 PM EDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1998, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Hocking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 2556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 26, 9:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 9:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 5:37 PM EDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:43 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1043 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

1041 PM    LANCASTER                 OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   FAIRFIELD                      COUNTY COMMS REPORTS
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL CURRENTLY
                                          FALLING JSUT NORTH OF
                                          LANCASTER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	51 min
Jun 26, 10:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	45 min
Jun 27, 12:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	44 min
Jun 27, 3:47 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Licking	3 hr
Jun 27, 5:01 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Licking	3 hr
Jun 27, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	59 min
Jun 27, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	58 min
Jun 27, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	57 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.