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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 14, 2000Adams County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 6:16 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 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 14, 2000, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 6:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Manchester, OH	Several trees knocked 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 14, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KILN 142217
SVRILN
OHC001-142300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
616 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT...

* AT 616 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF WEST UNION...OR ABOUT 21
  MILES NORTHEAST OF MAYSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WEST UNION...

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.

$$
JTD

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 14, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
300 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING AT THIS TIME SO NOT MUCH DISCUSSION. WILL
PROBABLY INCLUDE EVENING WORDING FOR THUNDERSTORMS MOST ZONES EXCEPT
EAST WHERE WILL INCLUDE CHANCE FOR TONIGHT. STAYED PRETTY CLOSE TO
MOS TEMP

.ILN...NONE.

WILKINSON/PARKER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 1:35 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
135 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0128 PM    4 SE ADA                  OH   .75 INCH HAIL
07/14/00   HARDIN                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jul 14, 1:36 PM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
932 AM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0932 AM    4 SE ADA                  OH   .75 INCH HAIL
07/14/00   HARDIN                         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 14, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin	56 min
Jul 14, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	27 min
Jul 14, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	22 min
Jul 14, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Union	35 min
Jul 14, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark	54 min
Jul 14, 2:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clark	48 min
Jul 14, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	38 min
Jul 14, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	51 min
Jul 14, 2:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Union	26 min
Jul 14, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	58 min
Jul 14, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	40 min
Jul 14, 3:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Hamilton	27 min
Jul 14, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	34 min
Jul 14, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	62 min
Jul 14, 3:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clermont	40 min
Jul 14, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	35 min
Jul 14, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	26 min
Jul 14, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark	49 min
Jul 14, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	45 min
Jul 14, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	47 min
Jul 14, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	58 min
Jul 14, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Madison	66 min
Jul 14, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	56 min
Jul 14, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	48 min
Jul 14, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	59 min
Jul 14, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	67 min
Jul 14, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	80 min
Jul 14, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike	27 min
Jul 14, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware, Union	72 min
Jul 14, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Licking	73 min

Nearby

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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.