Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 5:08 PM EST for Marion County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 min. 4 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, 5:08 PM EST (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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, 5:10 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Marion, OH | A small tornado touched down in rural Marion County about five miles north of Marion near the intersection of State Route 4 and U.S. Highway 23. The tornado was on the ground for only a couple hundred feet and caused no damage other than downing several trees |
| Nov 10, 5:15 PM EST | Hail 2.5 | Morral, OH | Tennis to golf ball size hail was observed in Salt Rock Township south of Morral. The hail caused an estimated $25,000 in damage to a school building that had over thirty windows broken. Many vehicles in the area were also damaged. |
| Nov 10, 5:17 PM EST | Hail 1 | Marion, OH | Quarter size hail was observed north of Marion. |
| Nov 10, 5:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed many trees in the western half of the county. At least two homes in Marion 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 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
160 WFUS51 KCLE 102208 TORCLE OHC101-102315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 508 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 615 PM EST * AT 508 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF MARION. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MARION THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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, 5:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 55 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.