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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 13, 1992Huron County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1992, 5:44 PM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1992, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1992, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Huron County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 1992-07-13Temperature 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 1992-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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 132145
TORCLE
OHC077-132245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
544 PM EDT MON JUL 13 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...HURON COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER
SOUTHEAST SENECA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MPH AND
WILL MOVE INTO HURON COUNTY AROUND 6PM.
 
THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS BY THE SENECA COUNTY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT AND COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS OF A TORNADO TOUCHING DOWN IN
SENECA COUNTY WHICH IS JUST WEST OF HURON COUNTY.
 
 
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 WINDOrWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 8:06 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECuyahoga84 min
Jul 12, 8:22 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie, Lorain68 min
Jul 12, 8:29 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHuron61 min
Jul 12, 8:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMedina68 min
Jul 12, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit66 min
Jul 12, 9:13 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEGeauga77 min
Jul 12, 9:18 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage57 min
Jul 12, 9:56 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit, Wayne64 min
Jul 12, 10:14 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage61 min
Jul 13, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry, Putnam67 min
Jul 13, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock42 min
Jul 13, 4:36 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHancock39 min
Jul 13, 4:43 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHenry, Wood47 min
Jul 13, 4:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESeneca53 min
Jul 13, 5:16 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHancock44 min
Jul 13, 5:27 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWood33 min
Jul 13, 5:43 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHenry47 min
Jul 13, 5:43 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESeneca47 min
Jul 13, 5:56 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWyandot64 min
Jul 13, 6:17 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne58 min
Jul 13, 7:20 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHolmes55 min
Jul 13, 7:44 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEColumbiana46 min
Jul 13, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark, Tuscarawas57 min
Jul 13, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Lake62 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.