Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 6:24 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 6:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
709 WFUS51 KILN 202224 TORILN OHC113-202255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 624 PM EDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 655 PM EDT * AT 621 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF DAYTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HUBER HEIGHTS AT 630 PM EDT . GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR .END/AR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Preble | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 65 min |
| Apr 20, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Shelby | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 62 min |
| Apr 20, 6:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Clark | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Madison | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 61 min |
| Apr 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.