Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 1:47 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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
- Apr 28, 2002, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 1:53 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Somerset, OH | |
| Apr 28, 2:10 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Crooksville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 101 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KRLX 281747 TORRLX OHC127-281815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 147 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 215 PM EDT... * AT 143 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF NEW LEXINGTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE NEW LEXINGTON PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ LAT...LON 3982 8235 3967 8222 3988 8176 4007 8192
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Vinton | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan | 53 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.