Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 2001, 3:09 PM EDT for Stark County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min. 10 reports 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
- Apr 9, 2001, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Stark County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:18 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Massillion, OH | Dime size hail was reported. |
| Apr 9, 3:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Massillion, OH | Dime size hail was reported. |
| Apr 9, 3:20 PM EDT | Hail 2.75 | North Industry, OH | Baseball size hail was reported. Dozens of cars were damaged and several homes had windows broken. |
| Apr 9, 3:25 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Massillion, OH | Quarter size hail was reported. A few cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 3:25 PM EDT | Hail 2 | Canton, OH | Hail the size of eggs was reported on the southwest side of Canton. Many cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 3:26 PM EDT | Hail 2 | Canton, OH | Hail the size of eggs fell near the intersection of Interstate 77 and US Highway 30 and damaged many cars. |
| Apr 9, 3:34 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Canton, OH | Golf ball size hail fell in downtown Canton. |
| Apr 9, 3:34 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Waco, OH | Golf ball size hail was reported. Many cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 3:38 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Louisville, OH | Dime size hail was reported. |
| Apr 9, 3:49 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Canton, OH | Nickel size was reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 11:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
635 WFUS51 KCLE 091909 TORCLE OHC151-169-092000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 309 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN OHIO... WAYNE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 309 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF BREWSTER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WOOSTER...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NORTH CANTON NAVARRE MINERVA MASSILLON LOUISVILLE CANTON BREWSTER ALLIANCE 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 AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 65 min |
| Apr 9, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 44 min |
| Apr 9, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 33 min |
| Apr 9, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 38 min |
| Apr 9, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 33 min |
| Apr 9, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.