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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2000, 6:01 PM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. It was in force for 14 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
- Jul 14, 2000, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson, OH | Trees were knocked down along Beaver Pike and around Hammertown Lake. Furniture blew through one window of a house. At least one house sustained roof damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
627 WFUS51 KRLX 142201 TORCRW OHC079-142215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 601 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 615 PM EDT... * AT 558 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OAK HILL... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. . <<CALL TO ACTION>>IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. $$ LAT...LON 3897 8277 3885 8270 3885 8246 3906 8258
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia | 27 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.