Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2000, 4:01 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 16, 2000, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2000, 4:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 E | Trotwood, OH | Trees were split and knocked down in Butler Township. |
| Jun 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 E | Dayton, OH | Several trees were blown down in Butler Township. |
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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
744 WFUS51 KILN 162001 TORILN OHC113-162040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 401 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 440 PM EDT... * AT 401 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF TROTWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. 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. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Madison | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 38 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.