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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 9, 1992Wyandot County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 9, 1992, 5:27 PM EDT for Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 1992, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wyandot County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 386 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 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
386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOL 092138 COR
TORTOL
OHC175-092215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
527 PM EDT WED SEP 9 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE STATE OF OHIO
      WYANDOT

AT 525 PM EDT WYANDOT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AND
POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST WEST OF CAREY IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
WYANDOT COUNTY.  IT WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

 ELH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood46 min
Sep 9, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca43 min
Sep 9, 5:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELake53 min
Sep 9, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky36 min
Sep 9, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron47 min
Sep 9, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca46 min
Sep 9, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain45 min
Sep 9, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark67 min
Sep 9, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning55 min
Sep 9, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina52 min
Sep 9, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning32 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.