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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 5, 1995Huron County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 1995, 6:32 PM EDT for Huron County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1995, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Huron County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 837 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 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
837 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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 052233
TORCLE
OHC077-093-052300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
632 PM EDT WED JUL 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HURON COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY
 
AT 630 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INIDICATED
A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR WAKEMAN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MILES PER HOUR. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM KIPTON AND
OBERLIN.
 
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.
 
RINGO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Seneca51 min
Jul 4, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood54 min
Jul 5, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron42 min
Jul 5, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina65 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.