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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 25, 1997Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1997, 8:38 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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 25, 1997, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1997, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
52 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 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 0.6 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1973 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 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
1973 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

994 
WFUS1 KCLE 260039 RRA
TORCLE
OHC153-260130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
838 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 835 PM SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO EAST OF RICHFIELD. THE THUNDERSTORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR CUYAHOGA
FALLS AT 833 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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 8:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Trumbull57 min
Jun 25, 8:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina, Portage, Summit2 hr
Jun 25, 9:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark48 min

Nearby

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

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.