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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 28, 1999Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1999, 12:31 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1999, 12:31 PM EDT (16:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1999, 1:05 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:33 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.

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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 281632 RRA
TORCLE
OHC169-281705-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1231 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 105 PM EDT

* AT 1231 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...
  A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILLERSBURG OR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  MOUNT EATON... MNOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  MOUNT EATON


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, 12:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.