Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2003, 4:11 PM EST for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 4:11 PM EST (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scioto County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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 222111 CCA TORILN OHC145-222200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 410 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCIOTO COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 500 PM EST... * AT 410 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF VANCEBURG...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORTSMOUTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... LUCASVILLE... NEW BOSTON... PORTSMOUTH... ROSEMOUNT... SCIOTODALE... 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 3863 8341 3849 8326 3878 8279 3895 8298 $$ CORRECTED TO REMOVE LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 4:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 4:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Scioto | 50 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.