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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 21, 2004Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2004, 5:12 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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: May 21, 2004, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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
May 21, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -213 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 212112
TORCLE
OHC007-212145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
512 PM EDT FRI MAY 21 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ASHTABULA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 512 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  JEFFERSON

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

LAT...LON 4164 8052 4159 8084 4165 8091 4176 8094
          4179 8078 4184 8056

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 20, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 20, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 21, 1:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		3 hr
May 21, 1:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		3 hr
May 21, 1:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		3 hr
May 21, 1:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lake	57 min
May 21, 2:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Summit	64 min
May 21, 2:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	54 min
May 21, 3:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford, Seneca, Wyandot	2 hr
May 21, 3:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain, Medina, Summit	3 hr
May 21, 3:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	67 min
May 21, 3:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	62 min
May 21, 4:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	45 min
May 21, 4:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	54 min
May 21, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 21, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	58 min
May 21, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood	79 min
May 21, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Seneca	65 min
May 21, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	53 min
May 21, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	59 min
May 21, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Huron	53 min
May 21, 3:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock	3 hr
May 21, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 21, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 21, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 21, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	62 min
May 21, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Medina	62 min
May 21, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	61 min
May 21, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow, Richland	59 min
May 21, 3:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wyandot	3 hr
May 21, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	61 min
May 21, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	57 min
May 21, 4:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina	4 hr
May 21, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit, Wayne	54 min
May 21, 4:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Richland	38 min
May 21, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Lake	64 min
May 21, 4:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Knox	64 min
May 21, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	57 min
May 21, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Stark	67 min
May 21, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Mahoning, Trumbull	65 min
May 21, 4:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox, Marion, Morrow	4 hr
May 21, 4:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Richland	4 hr
May 21, 5:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	26 min
May 21, 5:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	4 hr

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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.