Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1992

Tornado Warning 43, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 14, 1992Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 1992, 8:51 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1992, 8:51 PM EDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1992, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1992-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 767 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1992-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
767 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1469 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 150052
TORCAK
OHC133-150200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
851 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
PORTAGE COUNTY SHERIFF AND KENT POLICE DEPT AT840PM EDT REPORTED
SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS IN THE KENT-RAVENNA MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
DEGAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina55 min
Jul 14, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga53 min
Jul 14, 8:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula57 min
Jul 14, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit55 min
Jul 14, 8:55 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull50 min
Jul 14, 9:05 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark, Summit25 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes in 1992

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.