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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 4, 2006Mahoning County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2006, 4:42 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2006, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2006, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mahoning County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 4, 4:50 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 S Craig Beach, OH	ONE TREE AND ONE LARGE BRANCH DOWNED IN LAKE MILTON

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 522 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 042042
TORCLE
OHC099-042130-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0013.060704T2042Z-060704T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
442 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 436 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND GROUND 
REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A 
TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF CANFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BOARDMAN
  CANFIELD

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4094 8082 4093 8094 4098 8108 4099 8099
      4112 8099 4112 8092 4108 8076 4105 8055
      4091 8052 4090 8080

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 042135
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
530 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 2006

OHC099-042137-
/O.EXP.KCLE.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060704T2130Z/
MAHONING OH-
530 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 2006


...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MAHONING COUNTY EXPIRED AT 530 PM...
THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD A POTENTIAL OF GENERATING FUNNEL
CLOUDS AND BRIEF TORNADO TOUCH DOWNS HAVE WEAKENED. RADAR INDICATED
THE STRONGEST STORM WAS IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF MAHONING AND WAS
MOVING EAST. 

LAT...LON 4094 8082 4093 8094 4098 8108 4099 8099
      4112 8099 4112 8092 4108 8076 4105 8055
      4091 8052 4090 8080

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	52 min
Jul 4, 12:43 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 4, 1:47 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		118 min
Jul 4, 1:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	58 min
Jul 4, 1:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	53 min
Jul 4, 2:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	54 min
Jul 4, 3:19 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		86 min
Jul 4, 3:30 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		90 min
Jul 4, 4:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage	16 min
Jul 4, 7:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage	62 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.