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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 9, 2000Adams County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2000, 6:59 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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: Aug 9, 2000, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 9, 7:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Countywide, OH	Numerous trees 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KILN 092256
TORILN

OHC001-092345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
659 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT...

* AT 653 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF SEAMAN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES    
  SOUTH OF HILLSBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SEAMAN...
  PEEBLES...
  WEST UNION...

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
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, 5:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Butler, Preble	48 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, 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

Nearby

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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.