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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 1, 1999Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1999, 4:18 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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 1, 1999, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 1999, 5:05 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Medina County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 1, 4:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Granger, OH	Several trees fell on power lines knocking power out to over 5,000 people.

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 1, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 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 012023 RRA
TORCLE
OHC103-012105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
418 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 505 PM EDT

* AT 422 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ASHLAND OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  CHATHAM... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* "THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  CHATHAM
  LAFAYETTE
  MEDINA


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 1, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca	47 min
Jul 1, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wyandot	48 min
Jul 1, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Seneca, Wyandot	63 min
Jul 1, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain, Medina	51 min
Jul 1, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	34 min
Jul 1, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Medina	48 min
Jul 1, 5:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	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.