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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 6:35 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2000, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 7:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.6 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.
829 WFUS51 KRLX 232234 TORCRW OHC127-232305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 635 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 705 PM EDT... * AT 631 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW LEXINGTON OR 5 MILES WEST OF GLENFORD... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... GLENFORD... THORNVILLE SOMERSET... GLASS ROCK... MOUNT PERRY... SEGO... << CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END/DANL N
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, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Perry | 20 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.