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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 1, 2003Darke County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2003, 7:27 PM EDT for Darke 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: May 1, 2003, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Darke County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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
May 1, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

794 
WFUS51 KILN 012327
TORILN
OHC037-020000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
727 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT...

* AT 727 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF
  ANSONIA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF UNION CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ANSONIA...

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.

LAT...LON 4025 8481 4012 8472 4030 8443 4037 8458

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	48 min
May 1, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	33 min
May 1, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	64 min
May 1, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	47 min
May 1, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	63 min
May 1, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami, Shelby	24 min
May 1, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	23 min
May 1, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	36 min
May 1, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	44 min

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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.