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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 7, 1995Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1995, 8:18 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 830 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 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
830 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 080019
TORCLE
OHC103-080045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
818 PM EDT WED JUN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...MEDINA COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN SOUTHEAST MEDINA COUNTY NEAR
NEAR WADSWORTH. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
 
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 R:EINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
LAPLANTE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit44 min
Jun 7, 8:22 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit53 min
Jun 7, 8:28 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWayne32 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.