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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 15, 1992Carroll County, Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Oct 15, 1992, 5:06 PM EDT for Carroll County, Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 15, 1992, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Oct 15, 1992, 5:48 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1992-10-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1992-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 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 152106
TORCAK
OHC067-081-019-152215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
506 PM EDT THU OCT 15 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...HARRISON COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...CARROLL COUNTY
 
AT 500 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSSIBLE TOKRNADO ON THE
BORDER OF CARROLL...HARRISON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.
 
IK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 9:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga24 min
Oct 14, 9:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Lake52 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.