Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 303
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 18, 2000, 1:30 PM EST for 6 counties in Indiana; 15 counties in Michigan; 34 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2000, 1:30 PM EST (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Barry County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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.
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 1:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 32 min |
| May 18, 1:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan, Shelby | 38 min |
| May 18, 2:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 53 min |
| May 18, 2:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 32 min |
| May 18, 2:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 23 min |
| May 18, 2:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 37 min |
| May 18, 2:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton | 37 min |
| May 18, 2:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston | 49 min |
| May 18, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 40 min |
| May 18, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 45 min |
| May 18, 3:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 37 min |
| May 18, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Barry | 45 min |
| May 18, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 29 min |
| May 18, 4:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton | 41 min |
| May 18, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 50 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Fountain, Fulton, Jasper and 15 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Michigan, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000
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.