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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 1, 2007Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2007, 5:37 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 min. 4 reports 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: May 1, 2007, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2007, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
May 1, 5:47 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	1 W Polk, OH
May 1, 5:50 PM EDT	HAIL 1.25	Polk, OH
May 1, 6:01 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Polk, OH
May 1, 6:30 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	4 Ne Savannah, OH

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

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 1, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 1863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 012137
TORCLE
OHC005-012230-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0005.070501T2137Z-070501T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
537 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 533 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SAVANNAH...
  OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO POLK

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN OHIO.

LAT...LON 4090 8241 4099 8241 4099 8242 4105 8242
      4106 8226 4104 8218 4103 8217 4099 8218
      4099 8213 4085 8213 4085 8213

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 012159
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
559 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2007

OHC005-012230-
/O.CON.KCLE.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070501T2230Z/
ASHLAND OH-
559 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
ASHLAND COUNTY...

AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR POLK...OR ABOUT 12
MILES NORTHEAST OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN OHIO.

LAT...LON 4090 8241 4099 8241 4099 8242 4105 8242
      4106 8226 4104 8218 4103 8217 4099 8218
      4099 8213 4085 8213 4085 8213

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	64 min
May 1, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	80 min
May 1, 3:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Wood	42 min
May 1, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	53 min
May 1, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	67 min
May 1, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Sandusky	75 min
May 1, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	25 min
May 1, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		92 min
May 1, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	36 min
May 1, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	50 min
May 1, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	60 min
May 1, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Lake	58 min
May 1, 5:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	52 min
May 1, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Lorain	56 min
May 1, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	52 min
May 1, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	71 min
May 1, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	64 min
May 1, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	60 min
May 1, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	64 min
May 1, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	82 min
May 1, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	64 min
May 1, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	46 min
May 1, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	57 min
May 1, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
May 1, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	64 min
May 1, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	61 min
May 1, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	60 min
May 1, 6:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wayne	4 hr
May 1, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	54 min
May 1, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	66 min
May 1, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	64 min
May 1, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	30 min
May 1, 7:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	4 hr
May 1, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	53 min
May 1, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	65 min
May 1, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	60 min
May 1, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Wyandot	48 min
May 1, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	64 min
May 1, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	56 min
May 1, 7:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	6 hr
May 1, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	30 min

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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.