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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1994, 5:11 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1994, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbiana County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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.
- 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 252112 TORYNG OHC029-252200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH ISSUED BY CLEVELAND OH 511 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...COLUMBIANA COUNTY AT 510 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF LISBON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND HEADING TOWARDS THE CITY OF UNIONVILLE. 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. 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. BE CAREFUL OF FLOODING IN DRAINAGE DITCHES AND STORM CULVERTS. 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, 4 hours 2 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, 4 hours 1 minute 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, 3:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 49 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, 5:16 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.