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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 12, 1992Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1992, 6:23 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1992, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 122225
TORTOL
OHC123-122330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
ISSUED BY CLEVELAND OH
623 PM EDT SUN JUL 12 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
 
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY
 
BETWEEN 530 AND 615PM SEVERAL REPORTS OF A TORNADO IN OTTAWA COUNTY.
AT 615 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND REPORTS PLACED THE TORNADO IN
CENTRAL OTTAWA COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH.
 
ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR MOVING INTO WESTERN
OTTAWA COUNTY.
 
PEOPLE IN OTTAWA COUNTY ESPECIALLY THOSE NEAR LACARNE...CAMP PERRY AND
PORT CLINTON SHOULD BE TAKING COVER NOW.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD... CHEST AND EXPOSED SKIN.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND
PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE B^ETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM.
AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton59 min
Jul 12, 4:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEFulton53 min
Jul 12, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas45 min
Jul 12, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Wood51 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELucas13 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEOttawa, Wood58 min
Jul 12, 6:40 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESandusky65 min
Jul 12, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie56 min
Jul 12, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie, Lorain60 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.