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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 4:05 PM EST for Robertson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 4:05 PM EST (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robertson County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 4:25 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, KY | Numerous large limbs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 3:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KILN 092106 SVRILN KYC015-037-117-191-201-092145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 405 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROBERTSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY... KENTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... BOONE COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... PENDLETON COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... CAMPBELL COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 445 PM EST... * AT 405 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WALTON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF WILLIAMSTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... UNION... INDEPENDENCE... FORT WRIGHT... FORT MITCHELL... FLORENCE... FALMOUTH... COVINGTON... COLD SPRING... BUTLER... THIS STORM HAS AW HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. $$ TIPTON
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 Nov 9, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 305 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000 STRONG SQUALL LINE WITH WELL-DEFINED NOTCHES RACING NE TOWARD CWFA ATTM. NICE CLR SLOT AHEAD OF LOW HAS ALLOWED AMS TO DESTABILIZE SO SVR WX A GOOD BET. BUT LOW RUNNING AHEAD OF PROGS SO THINK TIMING PRECIP THRU STILL A GOOD IDEA. WILL KEEP BEFORE MID MENTION IN WEST WITH THUNDER ELY AND EVE THUNDER IN EAST AND NO FRI RAIN. AND WITH THIS BEING A TRUE COLD FRONT...TEMPS DROP 15 DEGS OR SO RIGHT AFTER FROPA. WILL UNDERCUT GUID TEMPS TONIGHT AS NGM TYPICALLY DOES NOT BRING COLD AIR IN FAST ENUF. TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE FOR FRI AS RIDGE BUILDS IN AND SKIES BECOME PC. GUID NUMBERS ARE CLOJSE FRI NITE AND SAT AND WILL STICK CLOSE. .ILN...NONE. WHITE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 3:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 60 min |
| Nov 9, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton, Pendleton | 40 min |
| Nov 9, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone | 40 min |
| Nov 9, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 67 min |
| Nov 9, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 44 min |
| Nov 9, 4:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.