Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1997, 5:08 PM EDT for Ashland County, Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports 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
- May 18, 1997, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, OH, Richland County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Ashland, OH | |
| May 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
625 WFUS1 KCLE 182110 RRA TORCLE OHC005-139-182215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 508 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHLAND COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY AT 507 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ON THE RICHLAND-ASHLAND COUNTY LINE EAST OF MANSFIELD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME TOWNS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED ARE MIFFLIN AND WIDOWVILLE BY 515 PM. 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. WOODWORTH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Wyandot | 65 min |
| May 18, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 49 min |
| May 18, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 59 min |
| May 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 30 min |
| May 18, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 49 min |
| May 18, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 67 min |
| May 18, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 48 min |
| May 18, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 56 min |
| May 18, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 46 min |
| May 18, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 42 min |
| May 18, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 45 min |
| May 18, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 57 min |
| May 18, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 55 min |
| May 18, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 33 min |
| May 18, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 40 min |
| May 18, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 53 min |
| May 18, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 49 min |
| May 18, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 38 min |
| May 18, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 36 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.