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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 15, 1998Darke County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1998, 4:49 PM EDT for Darke County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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 15, 1998, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Darke County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

983 
WFUS01 KILN 152050 RRA
TORILN
OHC037-152135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
449 PM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DARKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

* EFFECTIVE UNTIL 535 PM EDT.

* AT 446 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENVILLE.  THIS STORM WAS
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT STELVIDEO AND WEBSTER.


IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING.
AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND
COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 15, 9:40 AM EDT, 7 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 9:40 AM EDT, 7 hours 9 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
940 AM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

AWIPS ARRIVING...SO PRETTY CHAOTIC HERE THIS AM.

S/W MVNG THRU BASE OF TROF NOW IN ERN IL/WRN IN. 12Z SFC ANLYS SHWG TWO
BNDRYS ACRS CWA...ONE JUST S OF IND TO S OF CMD...OTHER FARTHER N TWD
LIMA AND CAK AREA. S/W ENERGY SEEMS TO BE ENHANCING PCPN ACRS CNTL OH.
DWPTS IN MID 60S ADVECTING INTO MORE SRN BNDRY...BNDRY FCST TO MV
SLOWLY NORTH IN RESPONSE TO SFC LO LIFTING NE. THIS BNDRY SHUD BE THE
FOCUS FOR RW/TRW TDY. 12Z SOUNDING SHOWED KI OF 39 AND PW OF 1.55... SO
VERY JUICY AIR IN PLACE OVR REGION. YSTDY RAINFALL TOTALS...WERE OVER
AN INCH FROM WAYNE TO FRANKLIN CTY IN INDIANA...OVER TO CLINTON AND
FAYETTE COUNTIES IN OHIO. ANOTHER AREA OF OVER AN INCH ACRS OH RVR IN
SRN CWA. FOCUS FOR PCPN SHUD BE FROM EAST CNTL INDIANA OVER TO CMH AREA.
DEFINITELY THINK FFA NEEDED FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA AS IS IN FCST NOW.
CNTL OHIO WORKED OVER ALREADY THIS AM...SO MAY NEED FLASH FLOOD WATCH
FOR AN AREA FROM JUST N OF DAY OVER TO CMH ALSO W/ S/W PROGGED TO CROSS
AREA AND MORE ENHANCEMENT IN STORE.

AREA HAS SEEN LAST OF SUNSHINE FOR TDY W/ CLDS TO WEST...SO MOSTLY
CLOUDY. TEMPS LOOK OK BUT CMH CUD REACH MID 70S W/ LTL HELP.

FARINA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 10:58 AM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1058 AM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

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

0227 PM    HAGERSTOWN                IN   FLOODING
06/15/98   WAYNE                          ROADS FLOODED...SR 38
                                          CLOSED

Local storm report, Jun 15, 2:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OHIO
1058 AM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

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

0227 PM    HAGERSTOWN                IN   FLOODING
06/15/98   WAYNE                          ROADS FLOODED...SR 38
                                          CLOSED

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, 5:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Montgomery	34 min
Jun 15, 6:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clinton	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.