Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2000, 3:20 PM EDT for Clermont County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports 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, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clermont County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Newtonsville, OH | |
| Jul 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Hail 2.5 | Felicity, OH | A supercell dropped hail for more than 10 minutes around Felicity. The largest hail during that period was the size of tennis balls. Significant damage occurred to tobacco and corn crops in the area. Also, some damage occurred to both car windows and house |
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, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 141921 TORILN OHC025-142000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 320 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLERMONT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 400 PM EDT... * AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF MILFORD...OR ABOUT OVER MADEIRA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WITHAMSVILLE... WILLIAMSBURG... MILFORD... BETHEL... BATAVIA... AMELIA... IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVASCUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER 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, 2:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Union | 26 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, 3:25 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.