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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 22, 2004Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 2:15 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 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 22, 2004, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

040 
WFUS51 KCLE 221815
TORCLE
OHC007-221845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
215 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 215 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST
  CENTRAL ASHTABULA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON...
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  RURAL EAST CENTRAL ASHTABULA COUNTY.

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 4162 8070 4170 8069 4170 8071 4179 8070
          4180 8052 4162 8053

$$

MRD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 12:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 22, 12:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 22, 12:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 22, 12:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	65 min
May 22, 12:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	55 min
May 22, 1:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	60 min
May 22, 1:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	41 min
May 22, 1:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	61 min
May 22, 1:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	54 min
May 22, 1:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Summit	4 hr
May 22, 2:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina	4 hr
May 22, 2:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage	4 hr
May 22, 3:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning	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.