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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 31, 2002Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2002, 5:13 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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 31, 2002, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 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 21:16 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 31, 5:18 PM EDT	Hail 1	Canton, OH	Quarter size hail was observed three miles south of Canton.
May 31, 5:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesburg, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.

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 31, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 164 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 312113
TORCLE
OHC151-312200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
513 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 513 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF EAST SPARTA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CANTON...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CANTON
  EAST SPARTA
  MINERVA
  WAYNESBURG

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 31, 9:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 31, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Summit	59 min
May 31, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	57 min
May 31, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	63 min
May 31, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	61 min
May 31, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow, Richland	58 min
May 31, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	58 min
May 31, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	38 min
May 31, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	56 min
May 31, 6:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Knox	20 min
May 31, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	31 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.