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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 4, 2003Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 2003, 1:41 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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 4, 2003, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2003, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 2003-08-04Temperature 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2003-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 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.

433 
WFUS51 KCLE 041741
TORCLE
OHC173-041815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
141 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM EDT

* AT 141 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WESTON...OR
  ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BOWLING GREEN
  PERRYSBURG
  WESTON

LAT...LON 4139 8387 4160 8358 4147 8341 4122 8377
          4129 8387

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 11:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood59 min
Aug 3, 11:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE113 min
Aug 3, 11:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE113 min
Aug 4, 1:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 4, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull33 min
Aug 4, 3:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark2 hr
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE117 min
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE117 min
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE117 min
Aug 4, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood56 min
Aug 4, 4:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWood4 hr
Aug 4, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake63 min
Aug 4, 5:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock3 hr
Aug 4, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca64 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE118 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE118 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa58 min
Aug 4, 6:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESeneca4 hr
Aug 4, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit55 min
Aug 4, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark26 min
Aug 4, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage67 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.