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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 25, 2005Hocking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2005, 4:15 PM EDT for Hocking County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 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: Jul 25, 2005, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2005, 4:46 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hocking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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
Jul 25, 4:25 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Union Furnace, OH	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. ROOFS OFF OF A FEW OUT BUILDINGS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 2602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KILN 252015
TORILN
OHC073-252100-
/O.NEW.KILN.TO.W.0005.050725T2015Z-050725T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
415 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOCKING COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STARR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN
  HOCKING COUNTY...INCLUDING UNION FURNACE...HAYDENVILLE AND STARR.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID
WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3954 8253 3938 8258 3939 8229 3947 8227
      3948 8216

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KILN 252024
SVSILN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
424 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

OHC073-252100-
/O.CON.KILN.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-050725T2100Z/
HOCKING OH-
424 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
HOCKING COUNTY...

AT 421 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR UNION FURNACE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN HOCKING
COUNTY...INCLUDING STARR.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID
WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3954 8253 3938 8258 3939 8229 3947 8227
      3948 8216

$$

000 
WWUS51 KILN 252046
SVSILN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
446 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

OHC073-252056-
/O.CAN.KILN.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-050725T2100Z/
HOCKING OH-
446 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HOCKING COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.


LAT...LON 3954 8253 3938 8258 3939 8229 3947 8227
      3948 8216

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin	46 min
Jul 25, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	14 min
Jul 25, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	60 min
Jul 25, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin	56 min
Jul 25, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Logan	40 min
Jul 25, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware, Franklin	45 min
Jul 25, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign	56 min
Jul 25, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	49 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.