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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
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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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 9:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 32 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.