Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1997, 10:08 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 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
- Jul 2, 1997, 10:08 PM EDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1997, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | |
| Jul 2, 10:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Edinboro, PA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 030210 RRA TORCLE OHC007-PAC049-PAZ520-OHZ526-030300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1008 PM EDT WED JUL 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE IN PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 1005 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO...NEAR THE CITY OF CONNEAUT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT 25 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE CITIES OF CONNEAUT IN OHIO...LAKE CITY AND FAIRVIEW IN PENNSYLVANIA. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.