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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Northern Indiana

August 26, 2003Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 11:32 AM EDT for Van Wert 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, 11:32 AM EDT (15:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2003, 12:30 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Van Wert County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Aug 26, 9:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KIWX 261532
SVRIWX
OHC161-261630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1129 AM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  VAN WERT COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 1230 PM EDT

* AT 1129 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF DELPHOS TO 7 MILES 
SOUTHWEST OF CONVOY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...
  MIDDLE POINT
  DELPHOS

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE 
STORMS SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.

LAT...LON 4081 8459 4082 8475 4089 8474 4100 8445
          4100 8438 4091 8438 4091 8432 4082 8432

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 10:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Van Wert	43 min
Aug 26, 11:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	65 min
Aug 26, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Williams	53 min
Aug 26, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Paulding	53 min
Aug 26, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Henry	75 min
Aug 26, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Van Wert	69 min
Aug 26, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Putnam	72 min
Aug 26, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen	78 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.