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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 3, 2003Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 2003, 2:28 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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 3, 2003, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 2003-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 162 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 2003-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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.

243 
WFUS51 KCLE 031828
TORCLE
OHC093-031900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
227 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 227 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER AMHERST...
  OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LORAIN...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* AT 227 PM EDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO OVER AMHERST AND
VERMILION OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LORAIN. RADAR SHOWED THIS 
TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  AMHERST
  LORAIN
  VERMILION

LAT...LON 4139 8239 4134 8216 4175 8195 4182 8224

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE63 min
Aug 3, 3:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE84 min

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.