Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2003, 5:10 PM EDT for Mercer County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 27, 2003, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mercer County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KILN 272110 SVRILN OHC107-272200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 510 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT... * AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF ROCKFORD...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF BERNE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CELINA... ROCKFORD... NEPTUNE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 4079 8492 4053 8492 4053 8445 4073 8445
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 46 min |
| Jul 27, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Miami | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.