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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 14, 1994Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 1994, 12:16 AM EDT for Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 1994, 12:16 AM EDT (04:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1994, 12:43 AM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lake County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 1994-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1877 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 1994-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 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
1877 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
10.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 140416
TORCLE
OHC085-OHZ501-140500-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1216 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...LAKE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 1215 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO MOVING ONSHORE NEAR FAIRPORT HARBOR. THE TOWNS OF
FAIRPORT HARBOR...PERRY...AND MADISON ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
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.
 
 
GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 8:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit57 min
Aug 13, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage56 min
Aug 13, 9:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull64 min
Aug 14, 12:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula45 min
Aug 14, 3:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula35 min
Aug 14, 4:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Stark, Wayne3 hr
Aug 14, 4:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland3 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.