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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Northern Indiana

November 10, 2002Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 3:03 PM EST for Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 2002, 3:03 PM EST (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 4:00 PM EST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Van Wert County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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, 3:15 PM EST	Tornado F4	Willshire, OH	This tornado touched down in the southwest corner of Van Wert County about 4 miles northeast of Willshire and moved northeast across the western portion of the city of Van Wert, and then crossed U.S. 30 and continued northeast before exiting the county about 7
Nov 10, 3:43 PM EST	Tornado F3	Roselms, OH	This tornado originated in Van Wert county and crossed into Paulding county 3 miles southwest of Roselms and exited Paulding county about 2.5 miles southeast of Oakwood. NWS ground and aerial survey found F3 damage along the entire path in Paulding county, wit

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

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

413 
WFUS53 KIWX 102003
TORFWA
OHC161-102100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
302 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VAN WERT COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 400 PM EST

* AT 302 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF     
  WREN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF    
  PRODUCING TORNADOES. 

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
  WREN
  OHIO CITY
  CONVOY
  VAN WERT
  MIDDLE POINT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4092 8481 4068 8479 4083 8439 4099 8442
          4099 8468

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 3:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Defiance, Paulding, Putnam	58 min
Nov 10, 3:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Henry	64 min
Nov 10, 3:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	IWX	Henry	64 min
Nov 10, 4:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam	54 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.