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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 30, 1992Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1992, 7:02 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1992, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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 1992-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 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 1992-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 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 302303
TORCAK
OHC133-310000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
702 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS THROUGHOUT PORTAGE
COUNTY THIS EVENING. AT 700 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
JUST SOUTHWEST OF STREETSBORO MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
IK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 1:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain119 min
Jul 30, 1:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga103 min
Jul 30, 1:44 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Summit106 min
Jul 30, 3:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain3 hr
Jul 30, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne69 min
Jul 30, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit56 min
Jul 30, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Wayne69 min
Jul 30, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage60 min
Jul 30, 6:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit, Wayne3 hr
Jul 30, 6:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage3 hr
Jul 30, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark51 min
Jul 30, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull64 min
Jul 30, 7:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMahoning55 min
Jul 30, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana64 min

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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.