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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 4:45 PM EDT for Lewis County, Mason County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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 10, 2003, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 10, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
327 WFUS51 KILN 102045 TORILN KYC135-161-102115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 443 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MASON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... LEWIS COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 515 PM EDT... * AT 443 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER MAYSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CAMP DIX... LEWISBURG... MAYSVILLE... TOLLESBORO... VANCEBURG... WASHINGTON... 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 3874 8379 3856 8386 3840 8327 3862 8319
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 113 min |
| May 10, 4:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Grant, Kenton | 115 min |
| May 10, 4:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 29 min |
| May 10, 4:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 28 min |
| May 10, 4:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 33 min |
| May 10, 5:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 90 min |
| May 10, 9:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 3 hr |
| May 10, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone | 58 min |
| May 10, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 42 min |
| May 10, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 40 min |
| May 10, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 52 min |
| May 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis | 30 min |
| May 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Lewis | 24 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.