Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 20 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
- May 23, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 6:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 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 22:20 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 23, 6:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Junction 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KRLX 232221 TORCRW OHC127-232240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 620 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 640 PM EDT... * AT 620 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR NEW LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE...v NEW LEXINGTON... << CALL TO ACTION >> GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! .END/RPY NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Perry | 14 min |
| May 23, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Perry | 30 min |
| May 23, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 34 min |
| May 23, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan | 35 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.