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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 1, 2001Erie County, Huron County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2001, 12:25 PM EDT for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min. 3 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: Jul 1, 2001, 12:25 PM EDT (16:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2001, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 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
Jul 1, 12:35 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Milan, OH	Dime size hail was reported three miles north of Milan.
Jul 1, 12:35 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Milan, OH	Dime size hail was reported.
Jul 1, 12:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wakeman, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.

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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 011626
TORCLE

OHC043-077-011715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1225 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ERIE COUNTY IN OHIO...
  HURON COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT

* AT 1225 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MILAN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF SANDUSKY...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WAKEMAN
  NORWALK
  MILAN

$$
VRCEK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	31 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.