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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1994, 3:56 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1994, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1994, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mahoning County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 251958 TORCLE OHC099-252045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 356 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...MAHONING COUNTY AT 355 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR CANFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WAS HEADING FOR THE CITIES OF BOARDMAN AND THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS OF THE YOUNGSTOWN AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD... CHEST AND EXPOSED SKIN. IF NO BASEM ENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM. AVOID WINDOWS. END/COMEAUX
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 1:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
OHZ001>033-036>037-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 110 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 105 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CLEVELAND...SOUTHWEST TO LODI IN MEDINA COUNTY TO NEAR LOUDONVILLE IN ASHLAND COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR MILAN IN ERIE COUNTY AND TO THE SOUTH OF MANSFIELD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AROUND 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POTENTIALLY LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS TO A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING AND GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 1:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
OHZ001>033-036>037-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 110 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 105 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CLEVELAND...SOUTHWEST TO LODI IN MEDINA COUNTY TO NEAR LOUDONVILLE IN ASHLAND COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR MILAN IN ERIE COUNTY AND TO THE SOUTH OF MANSFIELD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AROUND 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POTENTIALLY LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS TO A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING AND GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 7:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton | 63 min |
| Sep 25, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Putnam | 36 min |
| Sep 25, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Tuscarawas | 65 min |
| Sep 25, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 64 min |
| Sep 25, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 69 min |
| Sep 25, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 60 min |
| Sep 25, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 40 min |
| Sep 25, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 56 min |
| Sep 25, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 48 min |
| Sep 25, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lake | 56 min |
| Sep 25, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 45 min |
| Sep 25, 3:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 50 min |
| Sep 25, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Washington | 69 min |
| Sep 25, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Tuscarawas | 69 min |
| Sep 25, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 61 min |
| Sep 25, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 47 min |
| Sep 25, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 43 min |
| Sep 25, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Carroll | 38 min |
| Sep 25, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 41 min |
| Sep 25, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 48 min |
| Sep 25, 5:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 59 min |
| Sep 25, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 34 min |
| Sep 25, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 42 min |
| Sep 25, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 29 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.