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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2003, 6:45 PM EST for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 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, 6:45 PM EST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2003, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 122345
TORCLE
OHC169-130030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
644 PM EST WED NOV 12 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
* UNTIL 730 PM EST
* AT 644 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF
WOOSTER...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
DALTON
DOYLESTOWN
ORRVILLE
WOOSTER
LAT...LON 4092 8199 4095 8177 4098 8165 4075 8165
4072 8212 4089 8212
$$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, 6:09 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 |
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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.