Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2004, 6:05 PM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 25 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
- Aug 18, 2004, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Richland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS51 KCLE 182205
TORCLE
OHC139-182230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
605 PM EDT WED AUG 18 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 603 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF
SHELBY...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ONTARIO
SHELBY
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.
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 4097 8252 4099 8249 4099 8242 4081 8242
4079 8238 4076 8263 4079 8263 4080 8264
4093 8268
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 66 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 66 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 66 min | |
| Aug 18, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 58 min |
| Aug 18, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 42 min |
| Aug 18, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 18, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 18, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 65 min |
| Aug 18, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 38 min |
| Aug 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 7:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 53 min |
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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.