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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Northern Indiana

July 4, 2003Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2003, 6:39 PM EDT for Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 4, 2003, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 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), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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
Jul 4, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 718 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1115 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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.

572 
WFUS53 KIWX 042239
TORIWX
OHC161-042315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
638 PM EDT FRI JUL 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VAN WERT COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 638 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER OHIO CITY...MOVING   
  EAST AT 30 MPH. A SPOTTER REPORTED ROTATION IN THE CLOUDS IN THIS  
  AREA.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
  ELGIN
  MIDDLE POINT
  VENEDOCIA
  DELPHOS

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 8438 4068 8439 4068 8444 4072 8445
          4072 8474 4087 8474 4087 8432 4082 8432

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 12:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Williams	66 min
Jul 4, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	58 min
Jul 4, 12:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry	53 min
Jul 4, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Paulding	58 min
Jul 4, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance	59 min
Jul 4, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Van Wert	64 min
Jul 4, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Williams	60 min
Jul 4, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Williams	59 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.