Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 2003, 12:27 AM EST for Clermont County, Hamilton County, Warren County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2003, 12:27 AM EST (05:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2003, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clermont County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:27 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.
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 4, 10:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 628 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KILN 050527 SVRILN OHC025-061-165-050600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1225 AM EST SAT APR 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WARREN COUNTY IN OHIO... HAMILTON COUNTY IN OHIO... CLERMONT COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 100 AM EST... * AT 1225 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MASON TO 4 MILES EAST OF CINCINNATI...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BATAVIA... BLUE ASH... DEER PARK... LOVELAND... MASON... MILFORD... MORROW... SHARONVILLE... THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3943 8440 3904 8450 3907 8401 3941 8398
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 10:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Preble | 24 min |
| Apr 4, 11:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Darke, Miami, Montgomery, Preble | 29 min |
| Apr 4, 11:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 11:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Union | 40 min |
| Apr 4, 11:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 24 min |
| Apr 4, 11:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette, Madison, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 11:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Clinton, Greene, Warren | 30 min |
| Apr 4, 11:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 12:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette, Madison | 38 min |
| Apr 5, 12:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin, Hocking, Licking, Pickaway, Ross | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.