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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Wilmington, OH

September 15, 2003Auglaize County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 2003, 2:09 PM EDT for Auglaize County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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: Sep 15, 2003, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Auglaize County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KILN 151809
SVRILN
OHC011-151900-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
209 PM EDT MON SEP 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  AUGLAIZE COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT...

* AT 209 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAPAKONETA...MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WAPAKONETA...
  WAYNESFIELD...

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS
PATH...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 4064 8388 4051 8388 4053 8398 4049 8399
          4048 8410 4049 8421 4064 8421

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 15, 12:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 12:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1225 AM EDT MON SEP 15 2003

SINGLE STORM HAS FORMED INTO A LINE.  WILL UPDATE THE NORTHWEST TO
ADD CHC OF TRW A FEW COUNTIES FARTHER SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON.  MODELS
SHOWING SOME INSTABILITY INTO CENTRAL OHIO SO WILL EXPAND THE CHANCE
EASTWARD INTO CENTRAL OHIO.  WILL INCREASE THE POPS TO 40-50 IN THE
NW DUE TO THE LINEAR NATURE.

CLEMISILN OUT ASAP.

.ILN...NONE.

SITES

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 15, 11:56 AM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>097-099-100-OHZ026-034-035-
042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-151700-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED FORMAT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1156 AM EDT MON SEP 15 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN
KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

A FEW SHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTROMS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

 TIPTON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 15, 1:23 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
0123 PM EDT MON SEP 15 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0114 PM    BURKETTSVILLE             OH   0.75 IN HAIL
09/15/03   DARKE

JSS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 15, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	37 min
Sep 15, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003 Every 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.