Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2000, 7:38 PM EDT for Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2000, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2000, 8:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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 14, 7:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier, OH | Power lines down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KIWX 142340 TORFWA OHC171-150010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 738 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WILLIAMS COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 810 PM EDT * AT 738 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF EDGERTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... HALLOCK BRYAN MONTPELIER PIONEER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A SAFER SHELTER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA. LAT...LON 4149 8497 4137 8480 4169 8429 4187 8453 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Williams | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 4:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Defiance, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Paulding | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Henry | 42 min |
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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.