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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 14, 2000Morrow County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2000, 2:56 PM EDT for Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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 14, 2000, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Morrow County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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.

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

356 
WFUS51 KCLE 141856
TORCLE
OHC117-142000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
256 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MORROW COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 256 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SPARTA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF MOUNT GILEAD...
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SPARTA
  CHESTERVILLE

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.

$$

REL

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, 1:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark	52 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, 2:59 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.