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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 20, 2016, 7:22 PM EDT for Champaign County, Logan County, Ohio. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2016, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Champaign County, OH, Logan County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 7:40 PM EDT | TORNADO | 4 Se De Graff, OH | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED TORNADO ON THE GROUND. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
251
WFUS51 KILN 202322
TORILN
OHC021-091-202345-
/O.NEW.KILN.TO.W.0020.160820T2322Z-160820T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
722 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO...
SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.
* AT 721 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HISTORY OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DE GRAFF...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BELLEFONTAINE...WEST LIBERTY...DE GRAFF...QUINCY...VALLEY HI...
ZANESFIELD...ROSEWOOD...CARYSVILLE...SPRINGHILLS...MCMORRAN...
PICKRELLTOWN AND LOGANSVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ILN AND
SUBMIT YOUR REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 4045 8373 4022 8357 4020 8400 4031 8401
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 251DEG 22KT 4025 8398
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$
HAINES1 follow-up statement
808
WWUS51 KILN 202343
SVSILN
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
743 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2016
OHC021-091-202352-
/O.EXP.KILN.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-160820T2345Z/
CHAMPAIGN OH-LOGAN OH-
743 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN AND SOUTHERN LOGAN
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 745 PM EDT...
THE TORNADO WARNING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT HAS BEEN REISSUED
FOR NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN AND LOGAN COUNTIES AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815
PM. PLEASE REFER TO THAT BULLETIN FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER
INFORMATION.
PLEASE REPORT PREVIOUS TORNADOES...WIND DAMAGE OR HAIL TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY GOING TO OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ILN
AND SUBMITTING YOUR REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.
LAT...LON 4045 8373 4022 8357 4020 8400 4031 8401
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 251DEG 22KT 4025 8398
$$
ARThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton, Warren | 119 min |
| Aug 20, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mercer | 32 min |
| Aug 20, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 40 min |
| Aug 20, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mercer | 37 min |
| Aug 20, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Miami, Shelby | 31 min |
| Aug 20, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Shelby | 26 min |
| Aug 20, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Shelby | 8 min |
| Aug 20, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Darke, Miami | 19 min |
| Aug 20, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Shelby | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Miami, Shelby | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Auglaize | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 7:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan, Miami, Shelby | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Darke, Miami, Shelby | 23 min |
| Aug 20, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 7:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Champaign, Logan, Miami, Shelby | 3 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.