Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2000, 12:28 AM EDT for Brown County, Ohio; Mason County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 18, 2000, 12:28 AM EDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mason County, KY, Brown County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 540 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
415 WUUS51 KILN 180430 SVRILN KYC161-OHC015-180500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1228 AM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MASON COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 100 AM EDT... * AT 1228 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ABERDEEN...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF MAYSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SARDINIA... RIPLEY... ABERDEEN... WASHINGTON... MAYSVILLE... LEWISBURG... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 54 min |
| Aug 17, 11:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 38 min |
| Aug 17, 10:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Kenton | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 11:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 11:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 12:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Robertson | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.