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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 10, 1996Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1996, 7:51 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 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 10, 1996, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 1996-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 414 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 272 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
414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
272 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 102351
TORCLE
OHC153-110030-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
751 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 750 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
NEAR THE CITY OF MYERSVILLE IN SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY.
 
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 CU@SHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
 
JOLLY/RINGO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood36 min
May 9, 8:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa44 min
May 9, 8:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky41 min
May 10, 1:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland49 min
May 10, 1:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning, Stark2 hr
May 10, 1:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWayne2 hr
May 10, 1:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland65 min
May 10, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow46 min
May 10, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga48 min
May 10, 4:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
May 10, 5:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock2 hr
May 10, 5:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWyandot2 hr
May 10, 6:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
May 10, 7:19 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWayne26 min
May 10, 7:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron2 hr
May 10, 7:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina, Summit2 hr
May 10, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes43 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.