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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 24, 1999Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1999, 6:56 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1999, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1999, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1999-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 177 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1999-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 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
177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-28 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 242259 RRA
TORCLE
OHC173-242330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
656 PM EDT THU JUN 24 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 657 PM EDT... LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN OR 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CUSTAR... MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TOJRNADO WILL MOVE TOWARD BOWLING GREEN


IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST RESORT
LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
$$

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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.