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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 27, 2004Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 9:23 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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: May 27, 2004, 9:23 PM EDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2004, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 280123
TORCLE
OHC007-280215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
923 PM EDT THU MAY 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 923 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF
  ORWELL...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING EAST AT
  40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ANDOVER
  ORWELL

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

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 4171 8093 4153 8094 4149 8055 4174 8050

$$

MA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 27, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 27, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	59 min
May 27, 9:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 27, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		53 min
May 27, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	63 min
May 27, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.