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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV

May 23, 2000Perry County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 6:11 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 14 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 23, 2000, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2000, 6:25 PM EDT
In force
14 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 23, 6:15 PM EDTHail 2.75New Lexington Arpt, OH
May 23, 6:30 PM EDTHail 1.75Junction City, 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 2000-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 94 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 234 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

205 
WFUS51 KRLX 232210
TORCRW
OHC127-232225-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
611 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 625 PM EDT...

* AT 605 PM EDT... SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF NEW
  LEXINGTON OR 3 MILES WEST OF JUNCTION CITY... MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE...
  JUNCTION CITY...

<< CALL TO ACTION >> GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR

.END/RPY

 
N

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 6:20 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXPerry20 min
May 23, 6:35 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXPerry30 min
May 23, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry34 min
May 23, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMorgan35 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.