Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 4:26 PM EST for Logan County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 4:26 PM EST (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:38 PM EST | Tornado F3 | East Liberty, OH | The tornado touched down across the extreme eastern part of the county and moved northeast, continuing into Union County. Two semi trailers and a shed roof were damaged. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 1:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
481 WFUS51 KILN 102126 TORILN OHC091-102215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 426 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LOGAN COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 515 PM EST... * AT 426 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BELLEFONTAINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BELLEFONTAINE... WEST MANSFIELD... 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 52 min |
| Nov 10, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 4:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 4:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 4:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 52 min |
| Nov 10, 4:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Union | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Montgomery | 72 min |
| Nov 10, 5:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin, Logan | 58 min |
| Nov 10, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 25 min |
| Nov 10, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Licking | 24 min |
| Nov 10, 5:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 73 min |
| Nov 10, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Licking | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware | 25 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.