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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 21, 2001Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2001, 5:43 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 2001, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Medina County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2001-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2001-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 210 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 212143
TORCLE
OHC103-212215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
543 PM EDT MON MAY 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MEDINA COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 543 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF
  LODI...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF MEDINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  MEDINA
  LODI

$$

ADAMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 4:51 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain, Medina39 min
May 21, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes28 min
May 21, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark61 min
May 21, 7:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina114 min
May 21, 7:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga119 min
May 21, 7:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark51 min
May 21, 7:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.