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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 3, 2000Butler County, Preble County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 7:18 PM EDT for Butler County, Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2000, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Butler County, OH, Preble County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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 2000-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 240 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 2000-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1278 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

629 
WUUS51 KILN 032318
SVRILN
OHC017-135-040000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
718 PM EDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO...
  PREBLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT...

* AT 718 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMDEN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  SOUTH OF EATON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  TRENTON...
  SOUTH MIDDLETOWN...
  MONROE...
  MIDDLETOWN...
  GRATIS...
  CAMDEN...

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.

$$

SITES

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPike47 min
Jul 3, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown38 min
Jul 3, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery21 min
Jul 3, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.