Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 11:03 PM EDT for Paulding County, Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 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
- May 18, 2000, 11:03 PM EDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Paulding County, OH, Van Wert County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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 18, 11:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Paulding, OH | A car was blown off the road on SR500 in between Paulding and Payne. |
| May 18, 11:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Paulding, OH | 2 to 3 trees blown down. 1 on top of a car. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 10:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
733 WUUS53 KIWX 190305 SVRFWA OHC125-161-190345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1103 PM EDT THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PAULDING COUNTY IN OHIO NORTHERN VAN WERT COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT * AT 1100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANTWERP...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE... ANTWERP GROVER HILL PAULDING CONVOY VAN WERT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA. SLL/RS NNNN
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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.