Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2001, 5:34 PM EDT for Ross 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
- Jun 6, 2001, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ross County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bainbridge, OH | Numerous trees 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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 062138 TORILN OHC141-062200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 534 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ROSS COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT... * AT 534 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 12 MILES NEAR BAINBRIDGE...OR 20 MILES WEST OF CHILLICOTHE. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NORTH FOLK VILLAGE... FRANKFORT... CHILLICOTHE... BAINBRIDGE... A TORNADO WAS REPORTED WITH THE STORM NEAR SAMANTHA. 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. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR 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, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Pike | 60 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.