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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 14, 2000Union County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2000, 2:34 PM EDT for Union County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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 14, 2000, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Union County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 2:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Marysville, OH	Several trees downed.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 14, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

791 
WFUS51 KILN 141834
TORILN
OHC159-141900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
234 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  UNION COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT...

* AT 234 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MARYSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  MARYSVILLE...

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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin	56 min
Jul 14, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	27 min
Jul 14, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	22 min
Jul 14, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Union	35 min
Jul 14, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark	54 min
Jul 14, 2:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clark	48 min
Jul 14, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	38 min
Jul 14, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	51 min
Jul 14, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware	58 min
Jul 14, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	40 min
Jul 14, 3:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Hamilton	27 min
Jul 14, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	34 min
Jul 14, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	62 min
Jul 14, 3:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clermont	40 min
Jul 14, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	35 min
Jul 14, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	26 min
Jul 14, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark	49 min
Jul 14, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	45 min
Jul 14, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	47 min
Jul 14, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	58 min
Jul 14, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Madison	66 min
Jul 14, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	56 min
Jul 14, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	48 min
Jul 14, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	59 min
Jul 14, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	67 min
Jul 14, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	80 min
Jul 14, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike	27 min
Jul 14, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	44 min
Jul 14, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware, Union	72 min
Jul 14, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Licking	73 min

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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.