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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 4, 2000Mason County, Kentucky; Brown County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2000-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1059 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-05The 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 8:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClermont3 hr
Jul 5, 9:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNMontgomery, Preble2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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.