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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Wilmington, OH

November 9, 2000Clark County, Miami County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 5:43 PM EST for Clark County, Miami County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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, 5:43 PM EST (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 6:45 PM EST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clark County, OH, Miami County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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, 6:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	West Milton, OH	Trees were knocked down in several locations across the county.
Nov 9, 6:15 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Springfield, OH	Trees and large limbs blown down, some of which fell across roads.

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, 2:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Nov 9, 4:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 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 092244
SVRILN
OHC023-109-092345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MIAMI COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO...
  CLARK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 645 PM EST...

* AT 543 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF TIPP CITY...OR ABOUT 2 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF NORTHRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WEST MILTON...
  TROY...
  TIPP CITY...
  SPRINGFIELD...
  PIQUA...
  NEW CARLISLE...
  COVINGTON...

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH.

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, 5:25 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 5:25 PM EST, 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
525 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

WILL UPDATE FORECAST TO DISCONTINUE WATCH IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA
AS SOON AS LINE CLEARS EASTERN LEWIS COUNTY.

.ILN...NONE.

FRANKS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 9, 4:15 PM EST, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
415 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

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

0402 PM    CARROLLTON                KY   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   CARROLL                        LIGHT POLE BROKEN IN HALF.
                                          SEVERAL LIMBS DOWN...A FEW
                                          LARGE. )

0404 PM    GLENCOE                   KY   .88 INCH HAIL
11/09/00   GALLATIN

Local storm report, Nov 9, 4:33 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
433 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

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

0402 PM    CARROLLTON                KY   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   CARROLL                        LIGHT POLE BROKEN IN HALF.
                                          SEVERAL LIMBS DOWN...A FEW
                                          LARGE.

0404 PM    GLENCOE                   KY   .88 INCH HAIL
11/09/00   GALLATIN

0430 PM    3 S WILLIAMSTOWN          KY   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   GRANT                          TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES
                                          AND ONE TREE ON A MOBILE
                                          HOME IN THE SOUTHERN PART
                                          OF TOWN

SEW

Local storm report, Nov 9, 4:41 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
441 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

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

0405 PM    COUNTYWIDE                IN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   RIPLEY                         NUMEROUS TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS THE
                                          COUNTY

SEW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 4:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	67 min
Nov 9, 4:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown	60 min
Nov 9, 4:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Warren	55 min
Nov 9, 4:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Hamilton	31 min
Nov 9, 5:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	58 min
Nov 9, 5:06 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Adams	54 min
Nov 9, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland	66 min
Nov 9, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	66 min
Nov 9, 5:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton	62 min
Nov 9, 5:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	60 min
Nov 9, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike	54 min
Nov 9, 5:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	53 min
Nov 9, 5:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Warren	37 min
Nov 9, 5:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Highland	47 min
Nov 9, 5:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	43 min
Nov 9, 5:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Ross	56 min
Nov 9, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking, Pickaway	61 min
Nov 9, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Madison	61 min
Nov 9, 6:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	56 min
Nov 9, 6:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	64 min
Nov 9, 6:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Union	61 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.