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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 3:32 PM EST for Defiance County, Paulding County, Putnam County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min. 3 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 3:32 PM EST (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Defiance County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Nov 10, 3:58 PM EST | Tornado F3 | Continental, OH | This tornado originated in Van Wert county and moved across Paulding county into Putnam county about 4 miles west southwest of Continental. NWS ground and aerial survey found F3 damage as the tornado entered Putnam county, striking a mobile home and killing a |
| Nov 10, 4:03 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Ayersville, OH | This tornado originated in Van Wert county and moved across Paulding and Putnam counties before entering the extreme southwest corner of Defiance county about 5 miles southeast of Ayersville. NWS ground and aerial survey found the tornado was skipping, and pr |
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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 2:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 2:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay, Wells | 44 min |
| Nov 10, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 57 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.