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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 28, 1999Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1999, 12:26 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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 28, 1999, 12:26 PM EDT (16:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1999, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 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 28, 12:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Waynesburg, OH	A 60 mph wind gust was measured in Waynesburg.

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 28, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

734 
WFUS1 KCLE 281627 RRA
TORCLE
OHC151-281730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1226 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1225 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...
  A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILLERSBURG... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  WILMOT
  BEACH CITY
  BREWSTER
  EAST SPARTA

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 28, 8:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	65 min
Jul 28, 9:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	62 min
Jul 28, 9:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	33 min
Jul 28, 10:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	65 min
Jul 28, 10:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	63 min
Jul 28, 10:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	2 hr
Jul 28, 10:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	66 min
Jul 28, 10:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	65 min
Jul 28, 10:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	63 min
Jul 28, 10:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	66 min
Jul 28, 10:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	64 min
Jul 28, 10:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	65 min
Jul 28, 10:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	63 min
Jul 28, 10:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	65 min
Jul 28, 11:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	64 min
Jul 28, 11:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	65 min
Jul 28, 11:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	66 min
Jul 28, 11:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	58 min
Jul 28, 11:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	65 min
Jul 28, 11:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	62 min
Jul 28, 12:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Holmes	63 min
Jul 28, 12:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wayne	34 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.