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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 1, 2003Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 2003, 7:26 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
Aug 1, 2003, 7:26 PM EDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 1, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2003-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 212 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2003-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 012326
TORCLE
OHC173-020015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
726 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 726 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF
  NORTH BALTIMORE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN...
  MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NORTH BALTIMORE
  BOWLING GREEN

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

LAT...LON 4130 8387 4138 8344 4117 8343 4117 8387

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 9:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland4 hr
Aug 1, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood60 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.