Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1999, 6:49 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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
- Jul 9, 1999, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1999, 7:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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, 7:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 58 | Countywide, OH | A 67 mph gust was measured in Ravenna and several trees were downed. A large outdoor tent was blown down in Kent and the steeple of an historic church in Rootstown was severely damaged. |
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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
985 WFUS1 KCLE 092250 RRA TORCLE OHC133-092355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 649 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 755 PM EDT * AT 648 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF AKRON OR 7 MILES WEST OF RANDOLPH... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR... RANDOLPH ROOTSTOWN ATWATER RAVENNA GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ RINGO
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, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 66 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, 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.