Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2000, 7:40 PM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scioto County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:50 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Sciotoville, OH | A tornado was embedded in an area of straight line winds near Wheelersburg. Trees and power lines were knocked down on vehicles, damage occurred to a few homes, and two rail cars were knocked off their tracks. |
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, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.
000 WFUS51 KILN 092341 TORILN OHC145-100030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 740 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCIOTO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 830 PM EDT... * AT 740 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEST PORTSMOUTH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WHEELERSBURG... WEST PORTSMOUTH... SCIOTODALE... PORTSMOUTH... LUCASVILLE... 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. $$ DIAN-REED
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, 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, 7:44 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.