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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 2003, 7:36 PM EDT for Holmes County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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 16, 2003, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Holmes County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1750 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCLE 162336 TORCLE OHC075-169-170030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 736 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 736 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SHREVE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOOSTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... HOLMESVILLE MILLERSBURG MOUNT EATON SHREVE BERLIN WINESBURG WALNUT CREEK FARMERSTOWN THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 4079 8203 4063 8214 4033 8147 4057 8131 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 16, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 40 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.