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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 5:05 PM EST for Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 5:05 PM EST (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:20 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Fremont, OH | A tornado touched down just northwest of Fremont near the intersection of Shade Road and Four Mile House Road. A house was heavily damaged and a motor home destroyed near this location. From the initial touchdown site, the tornado traveled northeast for arou |
| Nov 10, 5:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed many trees on the west side of Bellevue. |
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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.
789 WFUS51 KCLE 102205 TORCLE OHC143-102300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 505 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 600 PM EST * AT 505 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTH OF GIBSONBURG...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF FOSTORIA. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... FREMONT GIBSONBURG THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$
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, 4:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 67 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, 5:08 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 |
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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.