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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 4, 2006Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2006, 4:44 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 16 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, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2006, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Portage County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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, 4:44 PM EDT	TORNADO	10 Se Ravenna, OH	POSSIBLE TORNADO IN DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP NEAR ALLIANCE ROAD. FARM STRUCTURE DAMAGED. FURTHER INVESTIGATION WILL BE DONE LATER THIS EVENING AND WEDNESDAY.

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 112 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 042043
TORCLE
OHC133-042100-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0014.060704T2044Z-060704T2100Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 442 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER
  SOUTHEASTERN PORTAGE COUNTY...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

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 4114 8110 4100 8120 4100 8100 4114 8101

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 042110
SVSCLE

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

OHC133-042115-
/O.EXP.KCLE.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-060704T2100Z/
PORTAGE OH-
510 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 2006


...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PORTAGE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 500 PM 
EDT...THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AND OR BRIEF
TORNADO TOUCH DOWNS IN SOUTHEASTERN PORTAGE COUNTY NEAR DEERFIELD
VILLAGE...NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE OVER PORTAGE.

LAT...LON 4114 8110 4100 8120 4100 8100 4114 8101

$$

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, 4:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning	48 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.