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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1996Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1996, 6:34 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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
Jun 13, 1996, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
41 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 22:35 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, 10.6 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 1996-06-13Temperature 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°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 132234
TORCLE
OHC153-132315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
634 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 629 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR
THE SOUTH SIDE OF AKRON ALONG I-77 AND ARLINGTON ROAD.
 
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL
PASS NEAR MOGADORE.
 
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.
 
 
REL

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, 6:44 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.