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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 16, 2000Greene County, Ohio

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 5:20 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ESpring Vly, OHA wall of a building that was under construction collapsed. Also, several trees were blown down.
Jun 16, 5:20 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 53 ECountywide, OHSeveral 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 4:01 PM EDTTornado WarningILNMontgomery39 min
Jun 16, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery49 min
Jun 16, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark, Madison43 min
Jun 16, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton, Warren47 min
Jun 16, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin38 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.