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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 14, 1995Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1995, 3:07 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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 141908
TORCLE
OHC035-055-142015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
307 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY...GEAUGA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NAYFIELD IN EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY WAS
SHOWING A DEVELOPING TORNADO AT 308 PM EDT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT
40 MPH AND WILL PASS OVER THE MULLBURY CORNERS AND FOWLERS MILL BEFORE
330 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD.0.. 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 3:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca54 min
May 14, 4:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula44 min
May 14, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain53 min
May 14, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga51 min
May 14, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake68 min
May 14, 3:07 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEGeauga57 min
May 14, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula59 min
May 14, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull51 min
May 14, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage29 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.