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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Wilmington, OH

November 9, 2000Highland County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 5:28 PM EST for Highland County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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: Nov 9, 2000, 5:28 PM EST (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Highland County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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
Nov 9, 5:45 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Countywide, OH	Trees and large limbs were knocked down by thunderstorm winds.

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
Nov 9, 4:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KILN 092228
TORILN

OHC071-092315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
528 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM EST...

* AT 528 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF
  BELFAST...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF HILLSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  MARSHALL...
  GREENFIELD...
  BELFAST...

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCE0D
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

$$
 TIPTON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 4:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	67 min
Nov 9, 4:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown	60 min
Nov 9, 4:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Warren	55 min
Nov 9, 4:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Hamilton	31 min
Nov 9, 5:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	58 min
Nov 9, 5:06 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Adams	54 min
Nov 9, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland	66 min
Nov 9, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	66 min
Nov 9, 5:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton	62 min
Nov 9, 5:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	60 min
Nov 9, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike	54 min
Nov 9, 5:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	53 min
Nov 9, 5:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Warren	37 min
Nov 9, 5:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	43 min
Nov 9, 5:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Ross	56 min
Nov 9, 5:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Miami	62 min
Nov 9, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking, Pickaway	61 min
Nov 9, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Madison	61 min
Nov 9, 6:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	56 min
Nov 9, 6:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	64 min
Nov 9, 6:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Union	61 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.