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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 16, 2003Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 16, 2003, 7:50 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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
May 16, 2003, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 2003-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 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.

090 
WFUS51 KCLE 162350
TORCLE
OHC005-170030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
748 PM EDT FRI MAY 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 748 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
   THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF      
   ASHLAND...  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* AT 748 PM EDT A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OR         
   POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHLAND.   RADAR SHOWED     
   THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ASHLAND
  HAYESVILLE
  LOUDONVILLE

LAT...LON 4089 8240 4097 8227 4086 8213 4068 8213
          4068 8220 4062 8223 4082 8240

$$

VRCEK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 8:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.