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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 7, 2003Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2003, 2:58 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 7, 2003, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2003, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Portage County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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
Jul 7, 12:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

421 
WFUS51 KCLE 071858
TORCLE
OHC133-071930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
258 PM EDT MON JUL 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 258 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF KENT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAVENNA...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  KENT
  RAVENNA

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4108 8100 4099 8101 4099 8118 4103 8137
          4121 8137 4118 8105 4114 8100

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 7, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 7, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 7, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	65 min
Jul 7, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	67 min
Jul 7, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	56 min
Jul 7, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	49 min
Jul 7, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	42 min
Jul 7, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	62 min
Jul 7, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	66 min
Jul 7, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	47 min
Jul 7, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Marion	54 min
Jul 7, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	45 min
Jul 7, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	40 min
Jul 7, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow, Richland	63 min
Jul 7, 3:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning	66 min
Jul 7, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	48 min
Jul 7, 3:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	61 min
Jul 7, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	28 min
Jul 7, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	41 min
Jul 7, 3:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage	43 min
Jul 7, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	51 min
Jul 7, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Wayne	66 min
Jul 7, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	58 min
Jul 7, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	17 min
Jul 7, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage, Summit	61 min
Jul 7, 4:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage	3 hr

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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.