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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 19, 2002Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2002, 5:10 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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
Apr 19, 2002, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 19, 5:16 PM EDTTornado F0Doylestown, OHA small tornado briefly touched down in a field near the intersection of State Route 21 and Deerfield Avenue. The initial touchdown occurred in Chippewa Township approximately four miles southeast of Doylestown. The tornado was only on the ground a few dozen

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 19, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2002-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 786 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2002-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
786 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 192110
TORCLE
OHC169-192145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
510 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 510 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  DOYLESTOWN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AKRON...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  DOYLESTOWN

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 6:12 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Apr 19, 6:12 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Apr 19, 6:12 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Apr 19, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain57 min
Apr 19, 4:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain2 hr
Apr 19, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina58 min
Apr 19, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox, Morrow58 min
Apr 19, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne38 min
Apr 19, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit30 min
Apr 19, 5:15 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark60 min
Apr 19, 5:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox, Morrow110 min
Apr 19, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox59 min
Apr 19, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes66 min
Apr 19, 6:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes2 hr
Apr 19, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland66 min
Apr 19, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Morrow64 min
Apr 19, 7:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland2 hr
Apr 19, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland58 min
Apr 19, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion66 min
Apr 19, 7:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox, Morrow3 hr

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.