Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 2002, 8:12 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 27, 2002, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lucas County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
097 WFUS51 KCLE 280012 TORCLE OHC095-280100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 811 PM EDT SAT JUL 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LUCAS COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 811 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITEHOUSE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOLEDO... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... HOLLAND OREGON SYLVANIA TOLEDO WHITEHOUSE THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$ LOMBARDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 34 min |
| Jul 27, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 54 min |
| Jul 27, 9:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 116 min | |
| Jul 27, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 106 min | |
| Jul 27, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 106 min | |
| Jul 27, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 63 min |
| Jul 27, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| Jul 27, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| Jul 28, 12:24 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 28, 1:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 28, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 28, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 41 min |
| Jul 28, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Jul 28, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Jul 28, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Jul 28, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.