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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Wilmington, OH

November 24, 2004Union County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 5:49 PM EST for Union County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 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: Nov 24, 2004, 5:49 PM EST (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Union County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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
Nov 24, 2:25 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 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 
WFUS51 KILN 242249
TORILN
INC161-242315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
548 PM EST WED NOV 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  UNION COUNTY IN INDIANA

* UNTIL 615 PM EST

* AT 541 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL FAYETTE COUNTY..AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

CONNERSVILLE POST HAS REPORTED DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH A POTENTIAL 
TORNADO SOUTHWEST OF CONNERSVILLE.

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.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3971 8511 3954 8507 3972 8482 3974 8503

$$
 TIPTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 5:19 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Fayette	41 min
Nov 24, 5:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	41 min
Nov 24, 5:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Wayne	35 min
Nov 24, 6:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Union	49 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.