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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 11, 2010Crawford County, Richland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2010, 7:36 PM EDT for Crawford County, Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 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 11, 2010, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2010, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Crawford County, OH, Richland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 769 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1024 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.

087 
WFUS51 KCLE 112336
TORCLE
OHC033-139-120015-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0008.100511T2336Z-100512T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
736 PM EDT TUE MAY 11 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
  NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 733 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLYMOUTH...OR 16 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF BUCYRUS...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY
RURAL NORTHEASTERN RICHLAND 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 4089 8297 4099 8299 4099 8285 4099 8242
      4087 8241
TIME...MOT...LOC 2337Z 267DEG 35KT 4095 8269

$$

KUBINA

2 follow-up statements

239 
WWUS51 KCLE 112356
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
756 PM EDT TUE MAY 11 2010

OHC033-139-120015-
/O.CON.KCLE.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-100512T0015Z/
CRAWFORD OH-RICHLAND OH-
756 PM EDT TUE MAY 11 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
RICHLAND AND NORTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

AT 750 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE STORM WAS 
LOCATED 14 MILES EAST OF SHELBY...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
ASHLAND...ADDITIONAL STORMS WERE NEAR NEW WASHINGTON AND SOUTH OF 
PLYMOUTH MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE....NEW WASHINGTON...
PLYMOUTH AND NORTHERN PORTION OF RICHLAND COUNTY WEST OF SAVANNAH.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 4087 8241 4089 8297 4098 8299 4099 8256
      4099 8242 4093 8241
TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 269DEG 53KT 4093 8238

$$

THOMPSON

092 
WWUS51 KCLE 120015
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
815 PM EDT TUE MAY 11 2010

OHC033-139-120024-
/O.EXP.KCLE.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-100512T0015Z/
CRAWFORD OH-RICHLAND OH-
815 PM EDT TUE MAY 11 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN RICHLAND AND NORTHEASTERN
CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO EXPIRES AT 815 PM EDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER 
APPEARED TO BE SEVERE. RADAR INDICATED STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO
MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

LAT...LON 4087 8241 4089 8297 4098 8299 4099 8256
      4099 8242 4093 8241
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 269DEG 53KT 4094 8193

$$

THOMPSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 2:54 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		31 hr
May 11, 5:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie, Sandusky	34 min
May 11, 6:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca	39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.