Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 8:19 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 10, 2000, 8:19 PM EDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamilton County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Forestville, OH | Strong winds knocked down several trees, some of which fell across State Route 125. |
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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Jul 10, 2:59 PM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:59 PM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 259 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000 IR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING CLOUD TOPS BEGINNING TO COOL ALONG THE OHIO RIVER EAST OF CINCINNATI. KILN SHOWING CELLS BEGINNING TO BECOME MORE ORGANIZE. VISIBLE IMAGERY INDICATES SKIES CLEARING ACROSS NORTHERN IN/IL SOUTH OF COLD FRONT. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT. BUT PREFER THE ETA AS IT SEEMS TO HAVE A BETTER HANDLE ON CURRENT SURFACE FEATURES AND CLOUD COVER. IT ALSO IS SLOWER IN PUSHING FRONT AND DRIER AIR OUT OF FA. IT APPEARS THAT CONVECTION WILL BE MUCH MORE WIDESPREAD THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS WEST TO EAST LOW LEVEL JET SETS UP OVER KY WHICH WILL CREATE DEEP CONVERGENCE ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER. THE MAIN THREAT EVE/OVERNIGHT WILL BE FLOOD WITH PWS ABOVE 2 INCHES AND MEAN STORM MOTION INDICATING SLOW PROPAGATING AND TRAINING ECHOS POSSIBLE. WILL GO CATEGORICAL POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH WITH HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE AND EVEN SOME FLOODING. AT THE MOMENT WILL HOLD OFF ON FFA TO SEE WHERE CONVECTION SETS UP AND THEN ISSUE IF NECESSARY. AS FAR AS SEVER WET BULB ZERO IS ABOVE 12 KFT...HOWEVER WITH LARGE CAPES DOWNBURT POTENTIAL DOES EXIST. WILL KEEP MENTION OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS FOR TUESDAY ACROSS THE SOUTH AS COLD FRONT AND INSTABILITY IS SLOW TO MOVE SOUTH OF FA. AS FOR TEMP WENT A COUPLE DEGREES WARMER FOR HIGHS AS NGM SEEMS A LITTLE TO FAST WITH TAKING WARM FRONT SOU}TH. MISILN SENT TO ALL. .ILN...NONE. TIPTON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 10, 7:56 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
CLELSRILN ALL
TTAA00 KILN DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...RETRANSMITTED FOR SPC
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
756 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0748 PM FOSTER KY 1 INCH HAIL
07/10/00 PENDLETON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 10:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 37 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.