Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2002, 3:57 AM EDT for Fairfield County, Franklin County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 min. 4 reports 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
- May 2, 2002, 3:57 AM EDT (07:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2002, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:05 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Groveport, OH | A few trees were blown down and the siding was stripped off of a house. |
| May 2, 4:10 AM EDT | Hail 1 | Groveport, OH | |
| May 2, 4:15 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Pickerington, OH | Several trees were blown down in the northern part of the county. |
| May 2, 4:17 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Grove City, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS51 KILN 020757
TORILN
OHC045-049-020845-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
357 AM EDT THU MAY 2 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
FRANKLIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO...
FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 445 AM EDT...
* AT 357 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF GROVE CITY...MOVING EAST AT 65
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
BALTIMORE...
BEXLEY...
BLACKLICK ESTATES...
BREMEN...
CANAL WINCHESTER...
COLUMBUS...
GROVE CITY...
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 OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE
WEATHER INFORMATION.The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 42 min |
| May 2, 12:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 44 min |
| May 2, 12:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 31 min |
| May 2, 3:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark | 64 min |
| May 2, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 47 min |
| May 2, 3:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 47 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.