Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 5:02 PM EDT for Greene County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 16, 2000, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Spring Vly, OH | A wall of a building that was under construction collapsed. Also, several trees were blown down. |
| Jun 16, 5:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 E | Countywide, OH | Several trees were downed across the county. A wall of a building that was under construction was blown down. |
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
709 WUUS51 KILN 162103 SVRILN OHC057-162130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 502 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 530 PM EDT... * AT 502 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BELLBROOK...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... XENIA... SHAWNEE HILLS... JAMESTOWN... CEDARVILLE... BELLBROOK... BEAVERCREEK... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Madison | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.