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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 21, 2000Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2000, 12:35 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 25 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 21, 2000, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2000, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:34 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 2000-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 31 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 2000-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 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.

810 
WFUS51 KCLE 211640 COR
TORCLE
OHC007-085-211700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1235 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 PM EDT

* AT 1235 PM EDT NUMEROUS WATERSPOUTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OFFSHORE. A 
FEW OF THESE MAY COME ONSHORE AS TORNADOES AND DISSIPATE RAPIDLY.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. 

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  
  PERRY
  PAINESVILLE
  NORTH KINGSVILLE
  MENTOR
  MADISON
  GENEVA
  EASTLAKE
  CONNEAUT
  ASHTABULA
  
IF THREATENING CONDITIONS DEVELOP PLEASE TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

$$

RINGO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 9:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga41 min
Jul 21, 11:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Portage47 min
Jul 21, 11:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull44 min
Jul 21, 12:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull32 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.