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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 9, 2000Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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 9, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2000, 6:10 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 451 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
451 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 092137
TORCLE
OHC123-092210-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
537 PM EDT SUN JUL 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 610 PM EDT

* AT 537 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF
  OAK HARBOR...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT CLINTON...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  PORT CLINTON
  OAK HARBOR

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula24 min
Jul 9, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Ottawa47 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.