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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 12, 2003Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2003, 9:37 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 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
Jun 12, 2003, 9:37 PM EDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2003, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crawford County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2003-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1375 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2003-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1375 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

521 
WFUS51 KCLE 130137
TORCLE
PAC039-130230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
934 PM EDT THU JUN 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 934 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR 
  CONNEAUTVILLE. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
  ALSO SOME OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST
  CRAWFORD COUNTY AND FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THEM.
  STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AROUND AROUND 20 MPH.
  MEADVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS

LAT...LON 4173 7969 4164 8031 4181 8037 4185 8021
          4185 7974

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 8:47 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford43 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.