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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 6, 2001Switzerland County, Indiana; Gallatin County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2001, 5:22 PM EST for Switzerland County, Indiana; Gallatin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 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: Apr 6, 2001, 5:22 PM EST (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2001, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Switzerland County, IN, Gallatin County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KILN 062225
TORILN
INC155-KYC077-062245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
522 PM EST FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SWITZERLAND COUNTY (REISSUE) IN INDIANA...
  GALLATIN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 545 PM EST(645 PM EDT)...

* AT 522 PM EST (622 PM EDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5
  MILES NORTH OF WARSAW...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF RISING SUN...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...   
  PATRIOT...
  WARSAW...
  ETHERIDGE...
   
IF Y/OU 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.

$$
 TIPTON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 4:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	47 min
Apr 6, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn	48 min
Apr 6, 5:05 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Ohio, Switzerland	25 min
Apr 6, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell	46 min
Apr 6, 5:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone	33 min
Apr 6, 5:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	41 min
Apr 6, 5:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Pendleton	46 min
Apr 6, 6:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason	43 min
Apr 6, 6:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Lewis	33 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 2001 Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2001 Every tornado warning in 2001 Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.