Tornado Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 16, 1997, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT

In force

38 min

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Geauga County, OH

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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.

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.

692 
WFUS1 KCLE 162023 RRA
TORCLE
OHC055-162100-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
422 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND AT 423PM INDICATED A TORNADO
DEVELOPING NEAR BURTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 30 MPH AND
WILL PASS NEAR BURTON...BURTON STATION AND HUNTSBURG BY 500 PM EDT.
 
 
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.
 
 
MILLER

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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.