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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 7, 20104 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2010, 10:22 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 37 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: May 7, 2010, 10:22 PM EDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2010, 10:59 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Ashland County, OH, Medina County, OH, Richland County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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.

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 7, 3:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 535 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

949 
WFUS51 KCLE 080222
TORCLE
OHC005-103-139-169-080315-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0005.100508T0222Z-100508T0315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1022 PM EDT FRI MAY 7 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
  SOUTHWESTERN MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
  NORTHEASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
  NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO

* UNTIL 1115 PM EDT

* AT 1020 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ASHLAND...AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WEST SALEM...
  BURBANK...
  WESTFIELD CENTER...
  LODI...
  GLORIA GLENS PARK...
  CHIPPEWA-ON-THE-LAKE...
  BRIARWOOD BEACH...
  SEVILLE...

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 4080 8239 4097 8248 4106 8227 4106 8217
      4111 8216 4114 8210 4114 8207 4116 8206
      4121 8194 4099 8169
TIME...MOT...LOC 0223Z 248DEG 53KT 4094 8227

$$

LAPLANTE

1 follow-up statement

530 
WWUS51 KCLE 080259
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1059 PM EDT FRI MAY 7 2010

OHC005-103-139-169-080308-
/O.CAN.KCLE.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-100508T0315Z/
ASHLAND OH-RICHLAND OH-WAYNE OH-MEDINA OH-
1059 PM EDT FRI MAY 7 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MEDINA...NORTHWESTERN
WAYNE...NORTHEASTERN RICHLAND AND NORTHERN ASHLAND COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN OHIO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 300 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4080 8239 4097 8248 4106 8227 4106 8217
      4111 8216 4114 8210 4114 8207 4116 8206
      4121 8194 4099 8169
TIME...MOT...LOC 0258Z 248DEG 53KT 4113 8164

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 8:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie, Ottawa	34 min
May 7, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	29 min
May 7, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lake	43 min
May 7, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Sandusky	48 min
May 7, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wyandot	39 min
May 7, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Medina, Summit	45 min
May 7, 9:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Trumbull	55 min
May 7, 9:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Seneca, Wyandot	55 min
May 7, 9:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		112 min
May 7, 9:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga	30 min
May 7, 9:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Trumbull	39 min
May 7, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Huron, Richland	44 min
May 7, 10:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lake	28 min
May 7, 10:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Trumbull	78 min
May 7, 10:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	29 min
May 7, 10:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	52 min
May 7, 10:50 PM EDT	Low Water Advisory	CLE		21 hr
May 7, 11:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Richland	22 min
May 7, 11:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull	41 min
May 8, 12:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	25 min
May 8, 3:55 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	CLE	Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more	23 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.