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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 2000Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2000, 7:59 PM EDT for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min. 7 reports 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: May 9, 2000, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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
May 9, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 51 M	Countywide, OH	A 59 mph thunderstorm gust was measured at Toledo Express Airport at 806 pm EDT. Thunderstorm winds did extensive damage with trees downed throughout the county including in the cities of Toledo, Sylvania, Perrysburg and Maumee. A grocery store in Toledo sus
May 9, 8:10 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Hoytville, OH	A small tornado touched down just north of Hoytville on Needles Road and damaged two mobile homes. Both mobile homes suffered structural damage and were knocked off foundations. After traveling approximately 100 yards on the ground the tornado lifted back in
May 9, 8:10 PM EDT	Hail 4.5	Tontogany, OH	Hail as large as softballs and shaped at times like candy bars fell at Tontogany for approximately ten minutes. Damage was extensive with 160 of the 200 homes in the village sustaining damage. Most of the damage was from broken windows, but over 100 hundred
May 9, 8:18 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Countywide, OH	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph. Many trees were downed in Rossford and Bowling Green.
May 9, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Sylvania, OH	A tornado briefly touched down approximately two miles west of Sylvania. A nearly completed house was destroyed by the tornado before it lifted back into the clouds.
May 9, 8:23 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Pemberville, OH	A small tornado touched down briefly in a field just outside of Pemberville. No damage occurred.
May 9, 8:29 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Walbridge, OH

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
May 9, 4:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 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 
WFUS51 KCLE 100000
TORCLE
OHC095-173-100100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
759 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN OHIO
  LUCAS COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 759 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF WESTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF BOWLING
  GREEN. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  WHITEHOUSE
  WESTON
  WATERVILLE
  TOLEDO
  ROSSFORD
  PERRYSBURG
  OREGON
  NORTHWOOD
  BOWLING GREEN

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

$$

REL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	39 min
May 9, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	52 min
May 9, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	68 min
May 9, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	67 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.