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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 30, 2004Crawford County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 7:47 PM EDT for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 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 30, 2004, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crawford County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 105 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
May 30, 4:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

051 
WFUS51 KCLE 302347
TORCLE
OHC033-310015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
747 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 747 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BUCYRUS...
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BUCYRUS
  CRESTLINE
  GALION

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

LAT...LON 4090 8290 4091 8280 4092 8273 4072 8273
          4072 8302 4089 8303

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	66 min
May 30, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
May 30, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	50 min
May 30, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	41 min
May 30, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	61 min
May 30, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	37 min
May 30, 7:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Marion	29 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.