Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2001, 9:55 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 9:55 PM EDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fairfield County, OH, Licking County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Baltimore, OH | A roof was ripped off a house causing moderate damage. Numerous trees were downed in the vicinity of the house. Several barns also sustained some damage. An NWS storm survey determined that the damage was caused by microburst winds of 75 to 85 mph with a fe |
| Oct 24, 10:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Johnstown, OH | Several trees were knocked down in and around town. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
542 WUUS51 KILN 250157 SVRILN OHC045-089-250245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 955 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LICKING COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO... FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT... * AT 955 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES EAST OF DELAWARE TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PICKERINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BALTIMORE... BUCKEYE LAKE... GRANVILLE... HEATH... LANCASTER... MILLERSPORT... NEWARK... PATASKALA... PICKERINGTON... UTICA... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 58 min |
| Oct 24, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 41 min |
| Oct 24, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Montgomery | 49 min |
| Oct 24, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 47 min |
| Oct 24, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 39 min |
| Oct 24, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 39 min |
| Oct 24, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clinton, Highland | 47 min |
| Oct 24, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison, Union | 41 min |
| Oct 24, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pickaway, Ross | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 57 min |
| Oct 24, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware | 38 min |
| Oct 24, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 57 min |
| Oct 24, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 46 min |
| Oct 24, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.