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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 24, 1996Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1996, 1:05 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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 24, 1996, 1:05 PM EDT (17:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1996, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 1:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 80	Rootstown, 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 284 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 241706
TORCLE
OHC133-241800-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
105 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
AT 1 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE CITY OF
KENT. STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 2:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	60 min
Jun 24, 5:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	62 min
Jun 24, 6:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Geauga	2 hr
Jun 24, 11:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	54 min
Jun 24, 11:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	34 min
Jun 24, 11:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	25 min
Jun 24, 11:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	39 min
Jun 24, 11:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	34 min
Jun 24, 12:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	33 min
Jun 24, 12:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	44 min
Jun 24, 12:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	62 min
Jun 24, 12:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	30 min
Jun 24, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	64 min
Jun 24, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	56 min
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark, Summit	3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Medina, Wayne	3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes	3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Richland	3 hr
Jun 24, 12:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	36 min
Jun 24, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	46 min
Jun 24, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	57 min
Jun 24, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	41 min
Jun 24, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	62 min
Jun 24, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Wayne	58 min
Jun 24, 1:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning	25 min
Jun 24, 2:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning	60 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.