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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 28, 2004Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 2004, 6:37 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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 28, 2004, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 12:00Z on 2004-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1272 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 12:00Z on 2004-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 282237
TORCLE
OHC169-282315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
637 PM EDT SAT AUG 28 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 637 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
  NEAR ORRVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  DALTON
  ORRVILLE
  WOOSTER

LAT...LON 4078 8193 4080 8193 4083 8195 4086 8195
      4086 8196 4095 8165 4074 8165 4070 8189
      4070 8190

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 12:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark3 hr
Aug 28, 5:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELucas113 min
Aug 28, 8:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMorrow3 hr
Aug 28, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford59 min
Aug 28, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland64 min
Aug 28, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Lorain61 min
Aug 28, 6:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 28, 6:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 28, 6:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 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.