Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2002, 4:40 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 22, 2002, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 5:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Garrettsville, OH | Dime size hail was observed. |
| Aug 22, 5:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power poles near Aurora, Mantua, Brimfield, Hiram, Garrettsville and Nelson. A barn was blown down near Nelson. Several vehicles were damaged by fallen 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.
702 WFUS51 KCLE 222040 TORCLE OHC133-222115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 440 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 440 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF GARRETTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF RAVENNA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GARRETTSVILLE MANTUA 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, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 47 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.