Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2002, 10:09 PM EDT for Fayette County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 9, 2002, 10:09 PM EDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2002, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 10:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bloomingburg, OH | Trees were 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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 1949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
791 WFUS51 KILN 100209 TORILN OHC047-100245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1009 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT... * AT 1009 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF BLOOMINGBURG...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BLOOMINGBURG... JEFFERSONVILLE... WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE... 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 10:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway | 119 min |
| Jul 10, 2:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Licking | 93 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.