Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 4:41 PM EDT for Madison County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 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
- May 18, 2000, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 5:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 4:50 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Rosedale, OH |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 472 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KILN 182043 SVRILN OHC097-182110- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 441 PM EDT THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 510 PM EDT... * AT 441 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF CHOCKTOU LAKE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONDON...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... JEFFERSON... CHOCKTOU LAKE... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. . END/TPJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 40 min |
| May 18, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan, Shelby | 38 min |
| May 18, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 37 min |
| May 18, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 40 min |
| May 18, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 37 min |
| May 18, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Warren | 36 min |
| May 18, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 30 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.