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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 6, 2000Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 2000, 9:11 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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: Aug 6, 2000, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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
Aug 6, 9:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed trees throughout the county.

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
Aug 6, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

668 
WFUS51 KCLE 070111
TORCLE
OHC173-070145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
911 PM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 911 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  PERRYSBURG...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  PERRYSBURG

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	59 min
Aug 6, 9:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	55 min
Aug 6, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	63 min
Aug 6, 9:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca, Wyandot	55 min
Aug 6, 10:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Huron	43 min
Aug 6, 10:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	43 min
Aug 6, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	48 min
Aug 6, 10:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Lorain	51 min
Aug 6, 11:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	42 min
Aug 6, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	54 min
Aug 6, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	57 min
Aug 6, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Portage	59 min
Aug 6, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	62 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.