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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2011, 5:24 PM EDT for Sandusky County, Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min. 5 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 25, 2011, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2011, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 5:27 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | 3 Sw Bettsville, OH | |
| May 25, 5:38 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Green Springs, OH | |
| May 25, 5:45 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Tiffin, OH | |
| May 25, 5:48 PM EDT | HAIL 2.5 | Clyde, OH | |
| May 25, 6:00 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | 3 Ne Republic, 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 25, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
988 WFUS51 KCLE 252124 TORCLE OHC143-147-252215- /O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0010.110525T2124Z-110525T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 524 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO NORTHEASTERN SENECA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 521 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TIFFIN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... REPUBLIC... GREEN SPRINGS... CLYDE... BELLEVUE... 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 4144 8285 4115 8284 4108 8317 4123 8329 TIME...MOT...LOC 2125Z 246DEG 31KT 4118 8312 $$ LAPLANTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:16 PM EDT | Flood Watch | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Erie, Hancock, Huron, Knox and 10 more | 14 hr |
| May 25, 2:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 16 hr |
| May 25, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 25, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 57 min |
| May 25, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky | 57 min |
| May 25, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 50 min |
| May 25, 4:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock | 51 min |
| May 25, 4:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock | 14 hr |
| May 25, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood | 63 min |
| May 25, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| May 25, 5:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca | 13 hr |
| May 25, 5:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock | 41 min |
| May 25, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 42 min |
| May 25, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Seneca, Wyandot | 51 min |
| May 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie, Huron, Wyandot | 12 hr |
| May 25, 6:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 57 min |
| May 25, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 58 min |
| May 25, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 49 min |
| May 25, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Huron, Seneca | 54 min |
| May 25, 6:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Huron, Lorain, Medina | 5 hr |
| May 25, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 25, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 45 min |
| May 25, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 67 min |
| May 25, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion, Wyandot | 60 min |
| May 25, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| May 25, 7:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 4 hr |
| May 25, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 41 min |
| May 25, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 40 min |
| May 25, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Wyandot | 6 hr |
| May 25, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 29 min |
| May 25, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 38 min |
| May 25, 7:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake, Portage, Summit, Wayne | 5 hr |
| May 25, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 55 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.