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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 1, 1999Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1999, 5:02 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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 1, 1999, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1999, 6:05 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 1, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1999-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 521 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1999-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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.

795 
WFUS1 KCLE 012107 RRA
TORCLE
OHC153-012205-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 605 PM EDT

* AT 505 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDINA OR 4 MILES WEST OF BATH... MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  BATH
  RICHFIELD
  TWINSBURG


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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca47 min
Jul 1, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Wyandot48 min
Jul 1, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Seneca, Wyandot63 min
Jul 1, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain, Medina51 min
Jul 1, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland34 min
Jul 1, 4:18 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMedina47 min
Jul 1, 4:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMedina48 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.