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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 23, 2003Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 2003, 8:10 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 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 23, 2003, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2003, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 00:00Z on 2003-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 109 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 00:00Z on 2003-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

930 
WFUS51 KCLE 240010
TORCLE
OHC155-240045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
810 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 810 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF WARREN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CORTLAND
  LORDSTOWN
  NILES
  WARREN
  BRISTOLVILLE

LAT...LON 4125 8056 4113 8069 4114 8086 4125 8100
          4141 8087

$$

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.