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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 22, 2010Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2010, 6:22 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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: Jul 22, 2010, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2010, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lucas County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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 nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 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.

633 
WFUS51 KCLE 222222
TORCLE
OHC095-222300-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0037.100722T2222Z-100722T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
622 PM EDT THU JUL 22 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LUCAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 618 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SWANTON...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  WATERVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WATERVILLE...
  HOLLAND...
  MAUMEE...

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 4168 8341 4161 8352 4161 8356 4157 8361
      4154 8368 4151 8371 4150 8371 4145 8378
      4145 8388 4159 8388
TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 265DEG 22KT 4155 8384

$$

ABE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	51 min
Jul 22, 6:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	44 min
Jul 22, 7:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood	3 hr
Jul 22, 7:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	49 min
Jul 22, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		117 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.