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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 2000Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2000, 8:18 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 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: May 9, 2000, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OH

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 9, 4:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 100019
TORCLE
OHC123-100115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
818 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OTTAWA COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 818 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF GENOA...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING
  GREEN. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  OAK HARBOR
  GENOA
  ELMORE

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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 AVkAILABLE...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
May 9, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	68 min
May 9, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	47 min
May 9, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	46 min
May 10, 12:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Knox, Richland	39 min
May 10, 1:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Trumbull	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.