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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 24, 1994Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1994, 5:55 PM EDT for Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1994, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1994, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 1994-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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 242158
TORCAK
OHC067-081-242300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
555 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...HARRISON COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR AT AKRON AND PITTSBURGH INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST OF JEWETT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. IT WILL AFFECT GERMANO...RICHMOND AND
TORONTO.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit66 min
May 24, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning47 min
May 24, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana44 min
May 24, 6:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEBelmont, Jefferson69 min
May 24, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga43 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.