Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 4:38 PM EST for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 min. 6 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 4:38 PM EST (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Countywide, OH | Straight line thunderstorm winds caused considerable damage across Wood County. Several homes and a garage were damaged in Tontogany. The Weston area was also hard hit. Several homes were damaged, a car was destroyed and 26 power poles were toppled on the n |
| Nov 10, 4:54 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Jerry City, OH | A tornado touched down southwest of Jerry City and then moved northeast for approximately four and a half miles before dissipating. Seven homes sustained varying degrees of roof damage and three garages were destroyed on the southwest side of Jerry City. To |
| Nov 10, 4:55 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitehouse, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees a mile south of Whitehouse. |
| Nov 10, 5:01 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Bowling Green, OH | Thunderstorm winds estimated to be in excess of 60 mph blew a semi truck over on Interstate 75 ten miles north of Bowling Green. A car was also damaged. |
| Nov 10, 5:10 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Stony Ridge, OH | Law enforcement officers witnessed a small tornado touch down in an open area near the intersection of U.S. Highway 20 and Stoney Ridge Road in Troy Township. The tornado was only on the ground for a few hundred feet and caused no damage. |
| Nov 10, 5:19 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Millbury, OH | A tornado touched down in a wooded area between Main Street and Hille Drive. The tornado then traveled northeast for approximately one half mile before dissipating along Fostoria Road just north of State Route 51. A home on Emily Drive lost it's entire roof |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 1:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
838 WFUS51 KCLE 102138 TORCLE OHC095-173-102245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 438 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LUCAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO... WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 545 PM EST * AT 438 PM EST A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF WESTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NAPOLEON. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BOWLING GREEN PERRYSBURG ROSSFORD WATERVILLE WESTON WHITEHOUSE A LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND PEOPLE NEAR ITS PATH SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 58 min |
| Nov 10, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 59 min |
| Nov 10, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 56 min |
| Nov 10, 5:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 5:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 5:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Marion | 67 min |
| Nov 10, 5:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Richland | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 5:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes | 42 min |
| Nov 10, 5:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 37 min |
| Nov 10, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford, Morrow | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 5:35 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Nov 10, 5:35 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Nov 10, 5:35 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Nov 10, 5:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Seneca | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 5:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 66 min |
| Nov 10, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 6:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 57 min |
| Nov 10, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 6:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 59 min |
| Nov 10, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 56 min |
| Nov 10, 6:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 6:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 6:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 49 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.