Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2003, 6:00 PM EST for Crawford County, Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 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
- Nov 12, 2003, 6:00 PM EST (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2003, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crawford County, OH, Morrow County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 1:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Nov 12, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 12, 4:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS51 KCLE 122300
TORCLE
OHC033-117-122330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
600 PM EST WED NOV 12 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
MORROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 630 PM EST
* AT 600 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GALION...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUCYRUS...
MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
BUCYRUS
CHATFIELD
CRESTLINE
GALION
NEW WASHINGTON
LAT...LON 4099 8273 4071 8273 4069 8263 4060 8262
4061 8293 4064 8286 4070 8286 4070 8310
4098 8311
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 65 min |
| Nov 12, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 45 min |
| Nov 12, 5:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 52 min |
| Nov 12, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion | 67 min |
| Nov 12, 5:36 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Nov 12, 5:36 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Nov 12, 5:36 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Nov 12, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 65 min |
| Nov 12, 5:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 56 min |
| Nov 12, 6:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Richland | 36 min |
| Nov 12, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 25 min |
| Nov 12, 6:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 51 min |
| Nov 12, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 45 min |
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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.