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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 24, 2004Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2004, 7:40 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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 24, 2004, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2004, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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
Jun 24, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 242340
TORCLE
OHC151-250030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
740 PM EDT THU JUN 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 736 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF
  NORTH CANTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...   ALLIANCE
  CANTON
  HARTVILLE
  LOUISVILLE
  NORTH CANTON

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. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4082 8164 4091 8164 4091 8158 4090 8157
      4090 8141 4091 8140 4098 8140 4098 8109
      4078 8109

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	67 min
Jun 24, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	66 min
Jun 24, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	56 min
Jun 24, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	54 min
Jun 24, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	53 min
Jun 24, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	57 min
Jun 24, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	66 min
Jun 24, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	61 min
Jun 24, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	67 min
Jun 24, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	65 min
Jun 24, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	57 min
Jun 24, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	67 min
Jun 24, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	62 min
Jun 24, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	66 min
Jun 24, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	28 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.