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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 30, 2004Hardin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 7:34 PM EDT for Hardin County, Ohio. 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: May 30, 2004, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hardin County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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
May 30, 4:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KILN 302334
TORILN
OHC065-310000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
734 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARDIN COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 727 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR DUNKIRK...
  OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF KENTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FOREST...

A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY 
EVENING FOR OHIO.

LAT...LON 4081 8371 4063 8364 4063 8341 4070 8342
      4070 8349 4081 8350

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	38 min
May 30, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	50 min
May 30, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Highland	40 min
May 30, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	43 min
May 30, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland	31 min
May 30, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	59 min
May 30, 7:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Auglaize	32 min
May 30, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Ross	45 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.