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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 29, 1992Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 29, 1992, 3:19 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1992, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1992, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 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 12:00Z on 1992-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 122 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 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 KCAK 291919
TORCAK
OHC133-292015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
319 PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED SOUTH OF STREETSBORO AND NORTH OF KENT IN
PORTAGE COUNTY AND WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST.
 
AT 315 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THE SAME AREA.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
IK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 9:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula49 min
Jul 29, 2:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain2 hr
Jul 29, 2:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga116 min
Jul 29, 3:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron3 hr
Jul 29, 3:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull119 min
Jul 29, 3:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEColumbiana119 min
Jul 29, 3:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina2 hr

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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.