Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2000, 2:36 PM EDT for Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 23, 2000, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2:51 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Edon, OH |
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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KIWX 231837 SVRFWA OHC171-231930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 236 PM EDT WED AUG 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILLIAMS COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 236 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EDON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... MONTPELIER... BRYAN... STRYKER... SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. REPORT SEVERE *WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 23, 2:33 AM EDT, 12 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 2:33 AM EDT, 12 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 133 AM EST WED AUG 23 2000 SCTD PCPN ACRS CWA THIS MRNG IN MOIST UNSTABLE AMS. A FEW STRONG STORMS THE PAST 1/2 HOUR FAR SW PTN CWA AND WILL HAVE TO MONITOR FOR REST OF SHIFT. COULD SEE SOME ISOLD STG WIND WITH STORMS AS PROFILER SHWING 35-40KT WESTERLY FLO THROUGH 14K. EXPECT PCPN TO LINGER INTO THE MRNG HOURS BUT DON/T SEE MUCH HAPPENING THIS AFTN DUE TO LACK OF TRIGGER. SVRL VORT MAXES EVIDENT ON W/V IMAGERY IN WRN AND ERN SD...AND NEAR MN ARROWHEAD. SD S/WS SHD WEAKEN IN CONFLUENT FLOW DOWNSTREAM. BOTH ETA AND NGM SWEEP MN VORT LOBE ACRS MICH LATE TDA/ERLY TNGT BUT ATTM DONT THINK THERE WILL BE ENUF VERT MOTION TO TRIGGER PCPN AND DEEPER MSTR LACKING THAT AREA. ETA/NGM KEEP PCPN OUT OF CWA FOR THIS AFTN/ERLY EVNG ALTHO AVN TRIES TO HANG ONTO IT MAINLY S AND E. WITH DIFFUSE BNDRY/BAROCLINIC ZONE AND LINGERING LL MSTR COULD SEE SOME WDLY SCTD PCPN THIS AFTN ESPLY ERN PTN CWA BUT SINCE NOT MENTIONED IN CURRENT FCST WILL LEAVE OUT OF ZONES. WEAK HIGH ESTABLISHED OVER UPR GRTLKS THUR SHD PROVIDE FOR A SUNNY AND MUCH LESS HUMID DAY AS DWPTS DROP BACK INTO THE 50S. MOS GUIDANCE HAS WORKED OUT WELL PAST COUPLE OF DAYS AND WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW. .IWX...NONE. JAH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 23, 2:23 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
123 PM EST WED AUG 23 2000
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION...|.
0117 PM PLEASANT LAKE IN .75 INCH HAIL
08/23/00 STEUBEN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
NNearby
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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.