Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2002, 5:13 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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 25, 2002, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Perrysburg, OH | Golf ball size hail was reported six miles east of Perrysburg near the intersection of Interstates 80/90 and 280. |
| May 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Perrysburg, OH | Thunderstorm winds blew over two fully loaded semi trucks six miles east of Perrysburg near the intersection of Interstates 80/90 and 280. Both trucks were severely damaged. The roof of a large building nearby was also torn off. |
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 25, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 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 252113 TORCLE OHC173-252145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 513 PM EDT SAT MAY 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WOOD COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 513 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF PERRYSBURG...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NORTHWOOD PERRYSBURG ROSSFORD $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 57 min |
| May 25, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 93 min | |
| May 25, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 52 min |
| May 25, 5:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 28 min |
| May 25, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 25, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 25, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 25, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr |
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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.