Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2001, 6:05 PM EDT for Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana. It was in force for 25 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 6, 2001, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ohio County, IN, Switzerland County, IN
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 6, 6:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Rising Sun, IN | A few trees were 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 062206 TORILN INC115-155-062230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 505 PM EST FRI APR 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OHIO COUNTY IN INDIANA... SWITZERLAND COUNTY IN INDIANA... * UNTIL 530 PM EST... * AT 505 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF RISING SUN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF AURORA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... RISING SUN... MILTON... PATRIOT... EAST ENTERPRISE... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIpECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. $$ TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 48 min |
| Apr 6, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 23 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.