Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002

Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 19, 2002Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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
Apr 19, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 19, 5:16 PM EDTTornado F0Canal Fulton, OHA small and very weak tornado crossed into Stark County from Wayne County near the intersection of State Route 21 and Deerfield Avenue. This location is in Lawrence Township approximately three miles west of Canal Fulton. The tornado path was only a few doze
Apr 19, 5:16 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, OHThunderstorm winds downed at least seven trees and several power poles across the county. Most of the damage was in Lawrence Township where a barn was also destroyed. A second barn lost a large section of roof. A garage was significantly damaged in Canton T
Apr 19, 5:20 PM EDTHail 1Canal Fulton, OHDime to quarter size hail fell just west of Canal Fulton.
Apr 19, 5:40 PM EDTHail 0.75Massillon, OHDime size hail was reported.
Apr 19, 5:55 PM EDTHail 0.75Canton, OHDime size hail was reported.
Apr 19, 5:57 PM EDTHail 1Canton, OHQuarter size hail was reported.

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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 192115
TORCLE
OHC151-192215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 514 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MASSILLON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AKRON...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  
  CANAL FULTON
  CANTON
  MASSILLON
  NAVARRE
  NORTH CANTON

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, 5:10 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWayne35 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

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.