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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Northern Indiana

May 1, 2007Fulton County, Henry County, Ohio

NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2007, 5:29 PM EDT for Fulton County, Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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 1, 2007, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2007, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 1, 5:37 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Wauseon, OH
May 1, 5:41 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Wauseon, 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 1, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KIWX 012129
TORIWX
OHC051-069-012215-
/O.NEW.KIWX.TO.W.0011.070501T2129Z-070501T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
529 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO
  NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS SEVERE STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR PETTISVILLE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUSEON...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE STORM INCLUDE...
  NAPOLEON...
  DELTA...
  COLTON...LIBERTY CENTER AND TEXAS...
  MCCLURE...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 4145 8431 4152 8432 4155 8436 4163 8436
      4158 8388 4155 8388 4154 8387 4137 8387
      4133 8419 4143 8419

$$

JC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Williams	30 min
May 1, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	22 min
May 1, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	55 min
May 1, 4:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Williams	42 min
May 1, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Williams	59 min
May 1, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Henry	35 min
May 1, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance	58 min
May 1, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Paulding, Van Wert	63 min
May 1, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Henry	34 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.