Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 1:51 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 24 min. 4 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 28, 2002, 1:51 PM EDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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 28, 1:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Massillon, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines to the north of Massillon and in North Canton. |
| Apr 28, 1:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | East Sparta, OH | Golf ball size hail was reported. |
| Apr 28, 1:58 PM EDT | Tornado F2 | Crystal Spgs, OH | A strong F2 tornado touched down at 158 pm edt and caused major damage and two minor injuries along a path of just over seven miles. Major damage occurred along the path which was nearly a quarter mile in width at times. The initial touchdown occurred west o |
| Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Canton, OH | Dime size hail was reported near the intersection of Interstate 77 and U.S. Route 30. |
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 28, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
293 WFUS51 KCLE 281751 TORCLE OHC151-281815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 150 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 150 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF NORTH CANTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ALLIANCE CANTON HARTVILLE LOUISVILLE NORTH CANTON 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 10:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Apr 28, 11:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Lorain | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 12:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Apr 28, 12:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Apr 28, 12:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Apr 28, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 12:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Richland | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 12:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 1:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 1:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 1:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 63 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.