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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 3, 1997Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 1997, 10:15 PM EDT for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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: Aug 3, 1997, 10:15 PM EDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1997, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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
Aug 3, 10:40 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Perrysburg, 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 nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

359 
WFUS1 KCLE 040218 RRA
TORCLE
OHC095-173-040315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1015 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...LUCAS COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 1016 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER NORTHWEST
LUCAS COUNTY NEAR RICHFIELD CENTER. THE STORM CONTAINING THIS TORNADO
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME TOWNS THAT MAY BE
AFFECTED BY THIS TORNADO ARE HOLLAND...MAUMEE AND PERRYSBURG.
 
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.
 
 
WOODWORTH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa	61 min
Aug 3, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	38 min
Aug 3, 10:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	68 min
Aug 3, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	69 min
Aug 4, 2:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Henry	49 min
Aug 4, 2:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	65 min

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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.