Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1998, 5:44 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 25, 1998, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1998, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fairfield County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Clearport, OH | Trees and power lines knocked down. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
894 WUUS01 KILN 252146 RRA SVRILN OHC045-252245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 544 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 545 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF LANCASTER OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PICKERINGTON MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OAKLAND AT 558 PM EDT . AMANDA AT 601 PM EDT . LANCASTER AT 605 PM EDT . THIS STORM HAS KNOCKED DOWN TREES IN PICKAWAY COUNTY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. .END/SITES &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 32 min |
| Aug 25, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 42 min |
| Aug 25, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 3:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Licking | 66 min |
| Aug 25, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 66 min |
| Aug 25, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Licking | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pickaway | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 76 min |
| Aug 25, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike | 51 min |
| Aug 25, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.