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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 2004Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 8:54 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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 13, 2004, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2004, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 2004-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 876 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 2004-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
876 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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

550 
WFUS51 KCLE 140054
TORCLE
OHC005-140145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
854 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 854 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF
  SAVANNAH...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ASHLAND
  POLK
  SAVANNAH

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

LAT...LON 4104 8243 4081 8239 4078 8213 4105 8218

$$

MA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot59 min
Jun 13, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland55 min
Jun 13, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron58 min
Jun 13, 8:19 PM EDTTornado WarningCLERichland41 min
Jun 13, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE114 min
Jun 13, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE114 min
Jun 13, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Lorain66 min
Jun 13, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie34 min
Jun 13, 9:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina57 min
Jun 13, 9:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland63 min
Jun 13, 9:16 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Crawford, Richland4 hr
Jun 13, 9:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne63 min
Jun 13, 9:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow61 min
Jun 13, 10:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne65 min
Jun 13, 11:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox54 min
Jun 14, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Jun 14, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Jun 14, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Jun 14, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood74 min
Jun 14, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock66 min
Jun 14, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky63 min
Jun 14, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca57 min
Jun 14, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot60 min
Jun 14, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Erie, Huron, Marion67 min
Jun 14, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jun 14, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jun 14, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland54 min
Jun 14, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain63 min
Jun 14, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland61 min
Jun 14, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow64 min
Jun 14, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina59 min
Jun 14, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga55 min
Jun 14, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne42 min
Jun 14, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake65 min
Jun 14, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit63 min
Jun 14, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox58 min
Jun 14, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage55 min
Jun 14, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula61 min
Jun 14, 6:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE86 min
Jun 14, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes56 min
Jun 14, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull59 min
Jun 14, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark67 min
Jun 14, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning50 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.