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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 5, 2003Champaign County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2003, 9:49 PM EDT for Champaign County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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, 9:49 PM EDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Champaign County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.

484 
WFUS51 KILN 060149
TORILN
OHC021-060230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT...

* AT 949 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF
  ST. PARIS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF TROY...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  MECHANICSBURG...
  NORTH LEWISBURG...
  ST. PARIS...
  URBANA...

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 4027 8378 4024 8377 4023 8349 4001 8350
          4002 8378 4003 8403 4028 8402

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, 9:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery	33 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.