Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 6:07 PM EDT for Franklin County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Pleasant Corners, OH | Large limbs were blown down causing scattered power outages. |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Pleasant Corners, OH | Numerous large limbs were knocked down into power lines. |
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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.
574 WUUS51 KILN 162207 SVRILN OHC049-162245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 607 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 645 PM EDT... * AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE DARBY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF JEFFERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... UPPER ARLINGTON... GROVE CITY... GAHANNA... COLUMBUS... DARBY DALE... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
340 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000
HAVE DISCUSSED FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL WITH FELLOW FORECASTERS.
THUNDERSTORMS...ALTHOUGH MOVING AT A REASONABLE SPEED....HAVE BEEN
MOVING ACROSS THE SAME AREAS. THUS...I HAVE DECIDED TO PUT UP A
FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 AM EDT FOR PARTS OF W CNTRL AND CNTRL OHIO
AND E CNTRL INDIANA. THIS AREA HAS HAD SOME DECENT RAINS THE LAST
FEW DAYS.
THE LENGTH OF THE WATCH WILL ALLOW THE EVENING SHIFT ENOUGH TIME TO
SEE HOW THE ACTIVITY HAS PROGRESSED.
.ILN...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 AM EDT FOR
OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>053-060>062 AND
INZ050-058-059-066.
HICKMANIn the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 16, 5:35 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
535 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM SPRING VLY OH WIND DAMAGE
06/16/00 GREENE TREES DOWNThe 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, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 28 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 |
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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.