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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 12, 1992Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1992, 9:13 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 77 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, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1992, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 77 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Geauga County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 12, 9:20 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Geauga, 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 1048 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 252 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 9.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 130114
TORCLE
OHC055-130230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
913 PM EDT SUN JUL 12 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY
 
AT 905 PM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER
EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING EAST ABOUT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE
INTO GEAUGA COUNTY.
 
THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...DAMAGING
WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT AS THEY MOVED ACROSS
NORTHERN OHIO.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENRT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 8:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	84 min
Jul 12, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	68 min
Jul 12, 8:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Huron	61 min
Jul 12, 8:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Medina	68 min
Jul 12, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	66 min
Jul 12, 9:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage	57 min
Jul 12, 9:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit, Wayne	64 min
Jul 12, 10:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage	61 min
Jul 13, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Henry, Putnam	67 min
Jul 13, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	42 min
Jul 13, 4:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Hancock	39 min
Jul 13, 4:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Henry, Wood	47 min
Jul 13, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Seneca	53 min
Jul 13, 5:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Hancock	44 min
Jul 13, 5:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wood	33 min
Jul 13, 5:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Henry	47 min
Jul 13, 5:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Seneca	47 min
Jul 13, 5:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Huron	61 min
Jul 13, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wyandot	64 min
Jul 13, 6:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Holmes, Wayne	58 min
Jul 13, 7:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Holmes	55 min
Jul 13, 7:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Columbiana	46 min
Jul 13, 7:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark, Tuscarawas	57 min
Jul 13, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Lake	62 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.