Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 1999, 4:13 PM EDT for Fayette County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 1999, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 1999, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Bloomingburg, OH | A downburst from a thunderstorm blew a mobile home on its side causing minor injuries to the two occupants. Trees and utility poles were also uprooted and knocked across main roads and railroad tracks. |
| Oct 13, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Pancoastburg, OH | A brief touchdown flipped over several pontoon boats, destroying at least one. Several utility poles and trees were knocked down along with well-anchored signs being ripped off of a local business. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 132013 RRA TORILN OHC047-132115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 413 PM EDT WED OCT 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 412 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE... MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... I-71 AT MILE MARKER 75 AT 418 PM EDT . JEFFERSONVILLE AT 425 PM EDT . GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! .END/JTD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 46 min |
| Oct 13, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 48 min |
| Oct 13, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene, Montgomery | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 46 min |
| Oct 13, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark | 48 min |
| Oct 13, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Greene | 34 min |
| Oct 13, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Oct 13, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 50 min |
| Oct 13, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 48 min |
| Oct 13, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Pickaway | 65 min |
| Oct 13, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ross | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Highland | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 50 min |
| Oct 13, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.