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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Wilmington, OH

November 9, 2000Pike County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 5:21 PM EST for Pike County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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, 5:21 PM EST (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Nov 9, 2000, 6:15 PM EST
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 9, 5:35 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50 ECountywide, OHNumerous trees knocked down across the county.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Nov 9, 4:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-11-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 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 2000-11-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KILN 092221
SVRILN
OHC131-092315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
521 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 615 PM EST...

* AT 521 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KINCAID SPRINGS...OR
  ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF HILLSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WAVERLY...
  PIKETON...
  PIKE LAKE...
  KINCAID SPRINGS...

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING 80 MPH WINDS WHICH HAS CAUSED 
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AND NUMEROUS TREES TO FALL.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

$@$
 TIPTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 9, 4:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Hamilton67 min
Nov 9, 4:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Brown60 min
Nov 9, 4:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Warren55 min
Nov 9, 4:59 PM ESTTornado WarningILNHamilton31 min
Nov 9, 5:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPreble58 min
Nov 9, 5:06 PM ESTTornado WarningILNAdams54 min
Nov 9, 5:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland66 min
Nov 9, 5:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNScioto66 min
Nov 9, 5:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton62 min
Nov 9, 5:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery60 min
Nov 9, 5:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke53 min
Nov 9, 5:23 PM ESTTornado WarningILNWarren37 min
Nov 9, 5:28 PM ESTTornado WarningILNHighland47 min
Nov 9, 5:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene43 min
Nov 9, 5:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Ross56 min
Nov 9, 5:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark, Miami62 min
Nov 9, 5:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHocking, Pickaway61 min
Nov 9, 5:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMadison61 min
Nov 9, 6:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield56 min
Nov 9, 6:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin64 min
Nov 9, 6:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNUnion61 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.