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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1994, 5:26 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1994, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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.
- 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 252127 TORCLE OHC007-252200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 526 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUSR WEST OF THE CITY ANDOVER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WAS HEADING TOWARDS THE CITY RICHMOND. 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. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. END/COMEAUX
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, 5:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 59 min |
| Sep 25, 5:33 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.