Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 6:33 PM EDT for Fayette County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 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 27, 2004, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fayette County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
492 WFUS51 KILN 272233 TORILN OHC047-272300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 633 PM EDT THU MAY 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR OHIO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR INDIANA AND OHIO. LAT...LON 3957 8358 3941 8362 3936 8337 3951 8328 $$ TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 54 min |
| May 27, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 60 min |
| May 27, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Shelby | 42 min |
| May 27, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 65 min |
| May 27, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 60 min |
| May 27, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 59 min |
| May 27, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 57 min |
| May 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 56 min |
| May 27, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 24 min |
| May 27, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 58 min |
| May 27, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 56 min |
| May 27, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 59 min |
| May 27, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ross | 60 min |
| May 27, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 64 min |
| May 27, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 57 min |
| May 27, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 63 min |
| May 27, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 59 min |
| May 27, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike | 24 min |
| May 27, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 36 min |
| May 27, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 33 min |
| May 27, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 43 min |
| May 27, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 64 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.