Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 2001, 10:04 PM EDT for Greene County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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, 10:04 PM EDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2001, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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, 10:20 PM EDT | Hail 3 | Yellow Spgs, 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 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 100204 TORILN OHC057-100230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1004 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT... * AT 1004 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF JAMESTOWN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF XENIA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SHAWNEE HILLS... JAMESTOWN... CEDARVILLE... 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. $$ JDR
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, 9:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Darke | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 10:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Miami | 44 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.