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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 13, 1992Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1992, 5:43 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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 13, 1992, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Seneca County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 13, 6:06 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Seneca, 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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: 795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOL 132144
TORTOL
OHC147-069-132230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
543 PM EDT MON JUL 13 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...SENECA COUNTY
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
 
   ...HENRY COUNTY
 
THERE HAS BEEN REPORTS OF TORNADOS NEAR NEW REIGAL IN SECECA COUNTY
AND IS BEING TRACKED BY POLICE JUST SOUTH OF TIFFIN. FUNNEL CLOUDS
HAVE BEEN REPORTED JUST WEST OF NAPOLEON IN HENRY COUNTY.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
 
MWD/PM

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, 9:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Geauga	77 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, 5:44 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.