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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 4, 2000Brown County, Ohio

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.

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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
Jul 4, 7:26 PM EDTTornado F0Mt Orab, OHA 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 770 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 2000-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams44 min
Jul 4, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown38 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.