Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2000, 6:57 PM EDT for Brown County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 4, 2000, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Mt Orab, OH | A tornado made a brief touch down in a field. No damage occurred with this tornado. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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
- 770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 042305 TORILN OHC015-042330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...RETRANSMITTED FOR LEADS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 657 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 730 PM EDT... * AT 657 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF MOUNT ORAB...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SARDINIA... BROWNSTOWN... WAHLSBURG... ARNHEIM... GEORGETOWN... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ FRANKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 38 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.