Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2000, 8:33 PM EDT for Licking 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 15, 2000, 8:33 PM EDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Licking County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 802 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 160033 TORILN OHC089-160100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 833 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LICKING COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 900 PM EDT... * AT 833 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR GRANVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NEWARK... HEBRON... HEATH... HARBOR HILLS... GRANVILLE SOUTH... GRANVILLE... BUCKEYE LAKE... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE 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. RANDALL
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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.