Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2000, 1:38 PM EDT for Portage County, Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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
- Jul 14, 2000, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:55 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Hartville, OH | Quarter size hail was reported two miles east of Hartville. |
| Jul 14, 2:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Randolph, OH | |
| Jul 14, 2:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Massillion, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1313 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCLE 141738 TORCLE OHC133-151-141830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 138 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO... NORTHERN STARK COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 138 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AKRON... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... STREETSBORO RAVENNA MANTUA KENT HARTVILLE GARRETTSVILLE ALLIANCE THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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. $$ LAPLANTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 11:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Summit | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 2:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Morrow | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Seneca | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Erie, Lorain | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Marion | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Richland | 60 min |
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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.