Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 7:33 PM EDT for Delaware County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 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
- Aug 26, 2003, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Delaware County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 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 262333
SVRILN
OHC041-270015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
732 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DELAWARE COUNTY IN OHIO...
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT...
* AT 732 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DELAWARE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ASHLEY...
DELAWARE...
POWELL...
SUNBURY...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...TAKE COVER IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
LAT...LON 4042 8291 4036 8291 4035 8273 4012 8275
4013 8318 4024 8318 4024 8326 4044 8326The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 6:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Mercer | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 41 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.