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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2000, 7:53 PM EST for Wayne County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 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
- Jun 24, 2000, 7:53 PM EST (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2000, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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 24, 8:17 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Richmond, IN | Trees were knocked down throughout the city. A roof was blown off of a church on the 4700 block of National Road. Both a hotel and a restaurant sustained roof damage, and the hotel had a sign destroyed. |
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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 250054 TORILN INC177-250130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 753 PM EST SAT JUN 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN INDIANA... * UNTIL 830 PM EST... * AT 753 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF CENTERVILLE...MOVIN+G NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... RICHMOND... FOUNTAIN CITY... CENTERVILLE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFTEY IMMEDIATELY!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 37 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.