Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT for Ross County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ross County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:02 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 3 S Frankfort, OH |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm 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 55 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.
320
WFUS51 KILN 272245
TORILN
OHC141-272345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
645 PM EDT THU MAY 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ROSS COUNTY IN OHIO
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
* AT 641 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF
FRANKFORT...OR ABOUT OVER GREENFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTH FOLK VILLAGE...
CHILLICOTHE...
FRANKFORT...
SOUTH SALEM...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET.
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 3947 8330 3948 8329 3943 8274 3916 8277
3918 8306 3920 8310 3928 8337 3929 8338
3938 8338
$$
RYANThe 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, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette | 27 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 |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.