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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 3, 1999Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 1999, 3:14 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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 3, 1999, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1999, 3:50 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ashtabula County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 1999-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1069 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1999-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1069 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 031919 RRA
TORCLE
OHC007-031950-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
314 PM EDT SAT JUL 3 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 350 PM EDT

* AT 313 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF JEFFERSON OR IN THE VICINITY
  OF BUSHNELL... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  BUSHNELL


GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula36 min
Jul 3, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula47 min
Jul 3, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula65 min
Jul 3, 5:14 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshtabula46 min
Jul 3, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshtabula50 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.