Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2001, 8:03 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min. 2 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
- May 7, 2001, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2001, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:04 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Cory, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| May 7, 8:12 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Cory, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power poles approximately one mile north of Mount Cory.A nearby mobile home was moved three feet off of it's foundation. A roof was also blown off of a barn. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
919 WFUS51 KCLE 080004 TORCLE OHC063-080045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 803 PM EDT MON MAY 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 803 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF RAWSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PUBLIC REPORTED POSSIBLE TORNADO FORMING NEAR MOUNT CORY. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... VANLUE VAN BUREN RAWSON FINDLAY ARLINGTON ARCADIA 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. $$ FK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 23 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.