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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 1992Cuyahoga County, Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1992, 9:02 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1992, 9:02 PM EDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Medina County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 190100
TORCLE
OHC035-103-190200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
902 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AND BREIF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS
HAVE OCCURED IN HURON AND LORAIN COUNTIES BETWEEN 830 PM AND
900 PM EDT. THESE REPORTS WERE RECEIVED FROM BOTH THE PUBLIC AND
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS.
 
THE CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER LORAIN COUNTY AT 900
PM EDT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA FROM CLEVELAND TO MEDINA
BY 1000 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 MANSY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM.
AVOID WINDOWS.
 
KAPELA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Lorain	63 min
Jun 18, 8:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lorain	67 min
Jun 18, 9:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	56 min
Jun 18, 10:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	69 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.