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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 9, 1999Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1999, 6:04 PM EDT for Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 min. 3 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 9, 1999, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1999, 7:10 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 9, 6:08 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Rochester, OH	A tornado touched down briefly near the intersection of Gore Orphange and Stewart Roads (just south of Rochester) then moved east along Steward Road. Trees and powers lines were blown down.
Jul 9, 6:15 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Lodi, OH	A tornado touched down briefly in Lodi doing some structural damage. Roofs and siding were torn off of several homes with dozens of trees also downed. An amateur radio tower was knocked and the metal roofing of a local business was peeled off. Many trees
Jul 9, 6:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Chippewa On The Lake, OH	A series of macrobursts began on the west side of Chippewa Lake and moved east to Wadsworth resulting in a nearly continuous line of damage. Two homes were destroyed, 16 others suffered major damage and 40 homes suffered minor damage. Of the two homes that

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 9, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 3156 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 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 092204 RRA
TORCLE
OHC093-103-092310-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
604 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO
  MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 710 PM EDT

* AT 603 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 14 MILES NORTH OF ASHLAND OR 7 MILES WEST OF SPENCER...
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  SPENCER
  CHATHAM
  LODI
  MEDINA

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
$$
ACR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	64 min
Jul 9, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca	64 min
Jul 9, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	66 min
Jul 9, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	67 min
Jul 9, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion, Wyandot	63 min
Jul 9, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	65 min
Jul 9, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lake	63 min
Jul 9, 5:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Huron	66 min
Jul 9, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga	63 min
Jul 9, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Medina	65 min
Jul 9, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	65 min
Jul 9, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	64 min
Jul 9, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	62 min
Jul 9, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	62 min
Jul 9, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	63 min
Jul 9, 6:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	66 min
Jul 9, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Stark	63 min
Jul 9, 6:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage	66 min
Jul 9, 7:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning	63 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.