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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 17, 2004Portage County, Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2004, 9:05 PM EDT for Portage County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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 17, 2004, 9:05 PM EDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2004, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Portage County, OH, Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 1673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

926 
WFUS51 KCLE 180105
TORCLE
OHC133-155-180145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
905 PM EDT THU JUN 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 855 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  GARRETTSVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NORTH BLOOMFIELD...
  NEWTON FALLS...
  BRISTOLVILLE...
  LORDSTOWN...
  WARREN...
  CORTLAND...
  NILES...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND
GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4114 8052 4114 8094 4113 8099 4116 8100
      4118 8113 4118 8113 4134 8109 4135 8100
      4149 8100 4150 8053

$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 8:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	53 min
Jun 17, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	62 min
Jun 17, 8:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Wayne	4 hr
Jun 17, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	53 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.