Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 2003, 11:02 PM EDT for Auglaize County, Mercer County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 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 1, 2003, 11:02 PM EDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2003, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Auglaize County, OH, Mercer County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
513 WFUS51 KILN 020302 TORILN OHC011-107-020345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1102 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN OHIO... AUGLAIZE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT... * AT 1102 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. MARYS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CELINA... CRIDERSVILLE... NEW BREMEN... NEW KNOXVILLE... ST. MARYS... WAPAKONETA... WAYNESFIELD... 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. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 4057 8460 4040 8452 4053 8392 4076 8403 $$ TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 11:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 11:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 12:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 32 min |
| Aug 2, 12:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Preble | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 1:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 22 min |
| Aug 2, 1:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 1:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 1:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 5:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 114 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes 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.