Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2002, 4:28 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 22, 2002, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
944 WFUS51 KCLE 222028 TORCLE OHC055-222115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 428 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GEAUGA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 428 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH RUSSELL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF RAVENNA... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MIDDLEFIELD SOUTH RUSSELL 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. $$
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, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.