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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 5, 2003Greene County, Montgomery County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2003, 9:27 PM EDT for Greene County, Montgomery 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: Jul 5, 2003, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Greene County, OH, Montgomery County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 5, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 1958 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

844 
WFUS51 KILN 060127
TORILN
OHC057-113-060200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
927 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN OHIO...
  GREENE COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT...

* AT 927 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF
  KETTERING...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BEAVERCREEK...
  KETTERING...
  WILBERFORCE...
  WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB...
  XENIA...
  YELLOW SPRINGS...

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET.

LAT...LON 3978 8424 3977 8410 3985 8410 3983 8388
          3978 8365 3954 8366 3959 8430

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	45 min
Jul 5, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	52 min
Jul 5, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	45 min
Jul 5, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	45 min
Jul 5, 9:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Champaign	41 min
Jul 5, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	31 min
Jul 5, 11:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	51 min
Jul 5, 11:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	25 min
Jul 5, 11:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	45 min
Jul 6, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	29 min
Jul 6, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Shelby	37 min
Jul 6, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	50 min
Jul 6, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign	50 min
Jul 6, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark	58 min
Jul 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	61 min
Jul 6, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	46 min
Jul 6, 6:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Mercer	116 min
Jul 6, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	44 min
Jul 6, 7:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Mercer	2 hr

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.