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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 12, 1992Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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: Jul 12, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 12, 8:05 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Lorain, OH

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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 122331
TORCLE
OHC043-093-130030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
730 PM EDT SUN JUL 12 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...LORAIN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 725 PM HAM RADIO OPERATORS RECEIVED A REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD JUST
SOUTH OF SANDUSKY. CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTOM
IN THE AREA THAT POSSIBLY PRODUCED A TORNADO IN OTTAWA COUNTY EARLIER.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST ABOUT 40 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE INTO LORAIN
COUNTY BETWEEN 8 PM AND 830 PM EDT.
 
 
 
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 BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM.
AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	59 min
Jul 12, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Fulton	53 min
Jul 12, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	45 min
Jul 12, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Wood	51 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lucas	13 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Wood	58 min
Jul 12, 6:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ottawa	67 min
Jul 12, 6:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Sandusky	65 min
Jul 12, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.