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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 8, 1996Madison County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1996, 8:26 PM EDT for Madison County, Ohio. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1996, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 495 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
495 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
703 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
6.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 9:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron, Sandusky2 hr
May 9, 7:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot50 min
May 9, 7:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock2 hr
May 9, 7:43 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWyandot2 hr
May 9, 8:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESeneca118 min
May 9, 8:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot40 min
May 9, 9:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWyandot3 hr
May 9, 11:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes68 min
May 9, 11:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes60 min
May 9, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula69 min
May 9, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton, Henry38 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.