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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 2, 2010Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2010, 2:17 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 2, 2010, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2010, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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
Jun 2, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 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.

117 
WFUS51 KCLE 021817
TORCLE
OHC007-021900-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0011.100602T1817Z-100602T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
217 PM EDT WED JUN 2 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JEFFERSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL EASTERN ASHTABULA COUNTY

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET.

&&

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE. 1-877-633-6772. WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 4189 8052 4164 8053 4162 8081 4179 8088
TIME...MOT...LOC 1817Z 253DEG 26KT 4173 8072

$$

LAPLANTE

1 follow-up statement

612 
WWUS51 KCLE 021841
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
241 PM EDT WED JUN 2 2010

OHC007-021900-
/O.CON.KCLE.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-100602T1900Z/
ASHTABULA OH-
241 PM EDT WED JUN 2 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR EASTERN
ASHTABULA COUNTY...

AT 238 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 
LOCATED OVER EASTERN ASHTABULA COUNTY...OR 13 MILES EAST OF 
JEFFERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. OTHERWISE...SEEK
SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.

&&

LAT...LON 4176 8059 4184 8061 4189 8052 4175 8053
TIME...MOT...LOC 1840Z 245DEG 28KT 4181 8051

$$

THOMPSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 9:41 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		64 min
Jun 2, 10:35 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		55 min
Jun 2, 12:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Knox	44 min
Jun 2, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Wayne	56 min
Jun 2, 1:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	27 min
Jun 2, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	34 min
Jun 2, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	38 min
Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	45 min
Jun 2, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	60 min
Jun 2, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	57 min
Jun 2, 4:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage	47 min
Jun 2, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning	65 min
Jun 2, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		90 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.