Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 8:03 PM EDT for Morgan County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 8:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockport, OH | Large trees were knocked 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
733 WFUS51 KRLX 240004 RRA TORCRW OHC115-240035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 803 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 835 PM EDT... * AT 802 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF MCCONNELSVILLE OR 5 MILES NORTH OF RINGGOLD... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... RINGGOLD... MCCONNELSVILLE... NEELYSVILLE... STOCKPORT... CHESTERHILL... << CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END/CL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Washington | 31 min |
| May 23, 9:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Perry | 119 min |
| May 23, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Washington | 21 min |
| May 23, 10:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Perry | 2 hr |
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.