Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2002, 8:56 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2002, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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, 9:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Pierpont, OH | Dime size hail covered the ground one mile east of Pierpont. |
| May 25, 9:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Richmond Center, OH | Dime size hail was reported one mile west of State Route 7. |
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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCLE 260056 TORCLE OHC007-260130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 856 PM EDT SAT MAY 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ASHTABULA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 856 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANDOVER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ANDOVER THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. $$ LOMBARDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 43 min |
| May 25, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 40 min |
| May 25, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 30 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.