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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 16, 2000Montgomery County, Ohio

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 4:20 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 51 ETrotwood, OHTrees were split and knocked down in Butler Township.
Jun 16, 4:25 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 51 EDayton, OHSeveral 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery49 min
Jun 16, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene28 min
Jun 16, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark, Madison43 min
Jun 16, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton, Warren47 min
Jun 16, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin38 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.