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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 25, 1994Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1994, 2:42 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 25, 1994, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1994-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 107 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 12:00Z on 1994-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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 KCLE 251844
TORCLE
OHC151-251930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
242 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...STARK COUNTY
 
AT 240 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO
OVER EASTERN STARK COUNTY NEAR LOUISVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AND WILL REACH THE ALLIANCE AREA BY 300 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD... CHEST AND EXPOSED SKIN.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND
PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM.
AVOID WINDOWS.
 
GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 7:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECoshocton63 min
Sep 25, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPutnam36 min
Sep 25, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETuscarawas65 min
Sep 25, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry64 min
Sep 25, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton69 min
Sep 25, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark60 min
Sep 25, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina40 min
Sep 25, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga56 min
Sep 25, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lake56 min
Sep 25, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana45 min
Sep 25, 3:40 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEGeauga50 min
Sep 25, 3:56 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMahoning49 min
Sep 25, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWashington69 min
Sep 25, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETuscarawas69 min
Sep 25, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull61 min
Sep 25, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa47 min
Sep 25, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky43 min
Sep 25, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECarroll38 min
Sep 25, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Lake41 min
Sep 25, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana48 min
Sep 25, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEColumbiana49 min
Sep 25, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Lorain59 min
Sep 25, 5:26 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshtabula34 min
Sep 25, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning42 min
Sep 25, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull29 min

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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.