Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2000, 8:18 PM EDT for Mason County, Kentucky; Brown County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 4, 2000, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mason County, KY, Brown County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 050018 TORILN KYC161-OHC015-050045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 818 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MASON COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY... BROWN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 845 PM EDT... * AT 818 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF RIPLEY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF MAYSVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... RIPLEY... ABERDEEN... WASHINGTON... MAYSVILLE... LEWISBURG...^ 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, 8:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Montgomery, Preble | 2 hr |
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.