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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1996Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1996, 6:44 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1996, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 6:55 PM EDTHail 0.75Uniontown, OH
Jun 13, 7:23 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 56Canton, OH
Jun 13, 7:45 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 55Osnaburg Township, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1996-06-13Temperature 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 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 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 132244
TORCLE
OHC151-132345-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
644 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...STARK COUNTY
 
AT 640 RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF
UNIONTOWN IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST SUMMIT COUNTY.
 
THE TORNADO IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT  20 MPH AND
WILL PASS NEAR UNIONTOWN...GREENTOWN AND CAIRO
BY 715 PM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
LAPLANTE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood42 min
Jun 13, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland25 min
Jun 13, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne64 min
Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes59 min
Jun 13, 4:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne2 hr
Jun 13, 5:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit2 hr
Jun 13, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes67 min
Jun 13, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit67 min
Jun 13, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit41 min
Jun 13, 7:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit118 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.