Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2003, 3:47 PM EDT for Greene County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 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 2, 2003, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greene County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
067 WFUS51 KILN 021947 TORILN OHC057-022015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 348 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT... * AT 348 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER XENIA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CEDARVILLE... JAMESTOWN... SHAWNEE HILLS... WILBERFORCE... XENIA... 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 3978 8392 3963 8406 3953 8373 3968 8364
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 67 min |
| May 1, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan | 42 min |
| May 2, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 44 min |
| May 2, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette | 42 min |
| May 2, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 66 min |
| May 2, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 38 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.