Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1998, 3:33 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 22, 1998, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1998, 4:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 3:50 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Chautauqua, OH | A thunderstorm left a path of large hail which accumulated to several inches in spots. |
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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 47 min |
| Apr 22, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 62 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.