Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2001, 4:51 PM EDT for Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 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 21, 2001, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2001, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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 21, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs. |
| May 21, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado F2 | Chatham, OH | A tornado touched down along New London Eastern Road near Pawnee in southwestern Chatham Township. The tornado then traveled northeast for approximately 7.5 miles before dissipating along State Route 83 about three miles north of Chatham. The damage path was |
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCLE 212052 TORCLE OHC093-103-212130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 451 PM EDT MON MAY 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LORAIN COUNTY IN OHIO... MEDINA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 451 PM EDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF WELLINGTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF MEDINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WELLINGTON GRAFTON BRUNSWICK IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ VRCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 5:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 32 min |
| May 21, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 28 min |
| May 21, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 61 min |
| May 21, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina | 114 min |
| May 21, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 119 min |
| May 21, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 51 min |
| May 21, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 46 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.