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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 22, 2002Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2002, 4:21 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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: Aug 22, 2002, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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
Aug 22, 4:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed many trees across the central portion of the county. A car was damaged by a tree in Mecca.

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 12:00Z, 8.4 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

869 
WFUS51 KCLE 222021
TORCLE
OHC155-222100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
421 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 421 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF WEST FARMINGTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  WARREN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CORTLAND
  WEST FARMINGTON

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga	42 min
Aug 22, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	45 min
Aug 22, 4:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Geauga	47 min
Aug 22, 4:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage	35 min
Aug 22, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	33 min
Aug 22, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	60 min
Aug 22, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	52 min
Aug 22, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	47 min
Aug 22, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	50 min
Aug 22, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	51 min
Aug 22, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	61 min
Aug 22, 6:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	23 min
Aug 22, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	57 min
Aug 22, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	38 min
Aug 22, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	40 min
Aug 22, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	48 min

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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.