Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2003, 6:09 PM EST for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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, 6:09 PM EST (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2003, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Richland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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 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, 4:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 122309
TORCLE
OHC139-122345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
609 PM EST WED NOV 12 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 645 PM EST
* AT 609 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ONTARIO...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
LEXINGTON
MANSFIELD
ONTARIO
LAT...LON 4085 8242 4079 8238 4072 8238 4072 8234
4065 8234 4064 8264 4072 8262 4072 8272
4082 8272
$$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, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford, Morrow | 30 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.