Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 2001, 9:42 PM EDT for Darke County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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 9, 2001, 9:42 PM EDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2001, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 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 01:44 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 9, 10:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Bradford, OH | Thunderstorm produced wind damage near Bradford. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1457 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 100141 TORILN OHC037-100230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 942 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DARKE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT... * AT 942 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER GREENVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GREENVILLE... BRADFORD... ARCANUM... ANSONIA... 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. $$ TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 59 min |
| Apr 9, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 39 min |
| Apr 9, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pickaway | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 23 min |
| Apr 9, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 53 min |
| Apr 9, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 65 min |
| Apr 9, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 58 min |
| Apr 9, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 57 min |
| Apr 9, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 39 min |
| Apr 9, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike | 38 min |
| Apr 9, 10:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Miami | 44 min |
| Apr 9, 10:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Greene | 26 min |
| Apr 9, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 10:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 62 min |
| Apr 9, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pickaway | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 10:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 38 min |
| Apr 9, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 32 min |
| Apr 9, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 1:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 38 min |
| Apr 10, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 37 min |
| Apr 10, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 49 min |
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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.