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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 17, 1997Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 17, 1997, 12:29 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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: Aug 17, 1997, 12:29 PM EDT (16:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 1997, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 171631 RRA
TORCLE
OHC173-171715-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1229 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 1225 PM EDT...WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT THAT
SEVERAL TORNADOES HAVE TOUCHED DOWN IN SOUTHERN WOOD COUNTY NEAR THE
TOWN OF DESHLER. RADAR INDICATES THAT THESE ARE LIKELY COLD AIR FUNNEL
CLOUDS. COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUDS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGE ON OCCASION...SIMILIAR
TO A TORNADO.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	54 min
Aug 16, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	50 min
Aug 16, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	61 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.