Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 2000, 5:29 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 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
- Sep 23, 2000, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fairfield County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Lancaster, OH | A tornado made a few brief touchdowns in Lancaster destroying a garage and knocking down some trees and power lines. |
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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 232129 TORILN OHC045-232200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 529 PM EDT SAT SEP 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT... * AT 529 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF LANCASTER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... PLEASANTVILLE... LANCASTER... BALTIMORE... 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. $$ RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 38 min |
| Sep 23, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 42 min |
| Sep 23, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Pickaway | 30 min |
| Sep 23, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Highland | 47 min |
| Sep 23, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan | 38 min |
| Sep 23, 5:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 41 min |
| Sep 23, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Franklin | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.