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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 30, 1992Mercer County, Pennsylvania; Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1992, 8:34 PM EDT for Mercer County, Pennsylvania; Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1992, 8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1992, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Trumbull County, OH, Mercer County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 1992-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 706 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 00:00Z on 1992-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
706 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
4.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 12:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEForest, Venango3 hr
Jul 30, 8:18 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEColumbiana57 min
Jul 30, 9:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake4 hr
Jul 30, 9:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain, Medina4 hr
Jul 30, 9:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit4 hr
Jul 30, 9:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne4 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.