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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2000, 5:42 PM EDT for Butler County, Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 9, 2000, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, OH, Preble County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, OH | Numerous trees knocked down across the county. |
| Aug 9, 5:55 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Countywide, OH | Quarter size hail occurred in Hamilton and West Chester. Also, trees were knocked down across the county. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 2404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
283 WFUS51 KILN 092143 RRA TORILN OHC017-135-092230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 542 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PREBLE COUNTY IN OHIO... BUTLER COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 630 PM EDT... * AT 542 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMDEN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF OXFORD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MIDDLETOWN... HAMILTON... SOMERVILLE... CAMDEN... WEST COLLEGE CORNER... 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. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 9:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 9:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 9:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 9:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 9:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 9:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 10:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 10:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 10:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Pickaway | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 11:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 11:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 11:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Franklin | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 58 min |
| Aug 9, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking, Pickaway | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Highland | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Brown | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Brown | 84 min |
| Aug 9, 6:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Adams | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 58 min |
| Aug 9, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 7:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams | 116 min |
| Aug 9, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Scioto | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pickaway | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.