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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 23, 2000Richland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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 23, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Richland County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 23, 6:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindMansfield, OHThunderstorm winds downed many trees in Mansfield and Shenandoah.

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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 549 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 231 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
549 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 232220
TORCLE

OHC139-232300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
620 PM EDT WED AUG 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 620 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.
$$

ADAMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland54 min
Aug 23, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland38 min
Aug 23, 7:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron, Seneca2 hr

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.