Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 7:58 PM EDT for Ross County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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
- May 23, 2000, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ross County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Frankfort, OH | Trees and power lines 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
377 WFUS51 KILN 232358 TORILN OHC141-240030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 758 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ROSS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 830 PM EDT... * AT 758 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH FOLK VILLAGE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF CHILLICOTHE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NORTH FOLK VILLAGE... FRANKFORT... CHILLICOTHE... 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. .END/TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 34 min |
| May 23, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware | 49 min |
| May 23, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 44 min |
| May 23, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 32 min |
| May 23, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Licking | 58 min |
| May 23, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene, Montgomery | 60 min |
| May 23, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 45 min |
| May 23, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 52 min |
| May 23, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 45 min |
| May 23, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 46 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.