Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT for Pike County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 6, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Waverly, OH |
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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 062202 TORILN OHC131-062300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 600 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PIKE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT... * AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR BAINBRIDGE...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAVERLY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL HAS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR BAINBRIDGE. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... PIKE LAKE STATE PARK... NIPGEN... BUCHANAN... WAVERLY... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE 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. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO hOR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ SITES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 5:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ross | 26 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.