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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 21, 2003Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2003, 7:08 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 2003, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 2003-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1009 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 2003-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
1009 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

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

044 
WFUS51 KCLE 212308
TORCLE
OHC151-212345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
708 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 708 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NORTH
  CANTON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ALLIANCE
  CANTON
  HARTVILLE
  LOUISVILLE
  NORTH CANTON

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

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

LAT...LON 4085 8108 4081 8110 4080 8146 4088 8148
          4091 8145 4091 8141 4098 8140 4098 8109

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE110 min
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE110 min
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE110 min
Jul 21, 5:23 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 21, 5:23 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 21, 8:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Wyandot50 min
Jul 21, 8:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion38 min
Jul 21, 9:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford44 min
Jul 21, 9:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow43 min
Jul 21, 9:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox50 min
Jul 21, 9:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland41 min
Jul 21, 9:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland46 min
Jul 21, 10:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes52 min
Jul 21, 1:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull49 min
Jul 21, 1:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Trumbull3 hr
Jul 21, 1:36 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull24 min
Jul 21, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 21, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 21, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne46 min
Jul 21, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage49 min
Jul 21, 6:25 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 21, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas40 min
Jul 21, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga46 min
Jul 21, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull49 min
Jul 21, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit43 min
Jul 21, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa46 min
Jul 21, 7:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Geauga, Medina, Portage, Summit, Trumbull2 hr
Jul 21, 7:25 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull35 min
Jul 21, 7:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 21, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.