Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2003, 6:02 PM EDT for Mercer County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mercer County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 WFUS51 KILN 262202 TORILN OHC107-262300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 601 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT... * AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF ROCKFORD...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF BERNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CELINA... ROCKFORD... MENDON... 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 4080 8492 4065 8504 4049 8446 4072 8444
The 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, 6:24 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 |
| Aug 26, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware | 42 min |
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.