Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 6:38 PM EDT for Clark County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 7:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 6:51 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Springfield, OH | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
525 WFUS51 KILN 202238 TORILN OHC023-202320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 638 PM EDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 720 PM EDT * AT 632 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD OR 8 MILES WEST OF ENON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SPOTTERS HAVE OBSERVED THIS TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR FAIRBORN AT 635 PM. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ENON AT 640 PM EDT. NORTH HAMPTON AT 645 PM EDT . SPRINGFIELD AT 649 PM EDT . THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR .END/AR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Preble | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 65 min |
| Apr 20, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Shelby | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 62 min |
| Apr 20, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Madison | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 61 min |
| Apr 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 50 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.