Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 2000, 5:59 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2000, 6:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 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 22:01 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, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Bremen, OH | A tornado touched down in the eastern part of the county causing damage to a home and garage. |
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, 10.0 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.
166 WFUS51 KILN 232159 TORILN OHC045-232240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 559 PM EDT SAT SEP 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 640 PM EDT... * AT 559 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LANCASTER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... PLEASANTVILLE... LANCASTER... BALTIMORE... THIS STORM PRODUCED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN NORTHEAST PICKAWAY COUNTY AND FUNNEL CLOUDS IN THE LANCASTER AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. 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. $$ 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, 5:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 31 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, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, 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.