Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 2001, 4:27 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 4:27 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Wooster, OH | Quarter size hail was reported on the north side of Wooster. A few cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 4:28 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Wooster, OH | Nickel size hail was reported. |
| Apr 9, 4:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.5 | Wooster, OH | Walnut size hail was reported. A few cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 4:34 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Wooster, OH | Golf ball size hail was reported. Many cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 4:35 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Wooster, OH | Quarter size hail was reported five miles east of Wooster. A few cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 4:37 PM EDT | Hail 2.5 | Apple Creek, OH | Tennis ball size hail was reported one mile north of Apple Creek. Several cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 4:46 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Mt Eaton, OH | Quarter size hail was reported. A few cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 4:47 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Wooster, OH | Quarter size hail was reported two miles southeast of Wooster. A few cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 4:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Apple Creek, OH | Golf ball size hail was reported. Several cars were damaged. |
| Apr 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Apple Creek, OH | Dime size hail 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.
000 WFUS51 KCLE 092029 TORCLE OHC169-092100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 427 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 427 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WOOSTER... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONSy NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WOOSTER ORRVILLE MOUNT EATON DALTON $$ FMK
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, 3:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 51 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, 4:42 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 |
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.