Tornado Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 16, 1997, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Summit County, 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.

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TTAA00 KCLE 162313 RRA
TORCLE
OHC153-170000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
712 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
THE TONADO WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR SUMMIT COUNTY. RADAR INDICATED
A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR BARBERTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
30 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE BARBERTON...PORTAGE LAKES AND
MOGADORE.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

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.