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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 4, 2011Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2011, 9:19 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 20 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 4, 2011, 9:19 PM EDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2011, 9:39 PM EDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 4, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 567 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 9.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

900 
WFUS51 KCLE 050119
TORCLE
OHC075-050200-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0018.110605T0119Z-110605T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
919 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 916 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MILLERSBURG...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WALNUT CREEK...
  FARMERSTOWN...

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 4045 8167 4046 8202 4058 8202 4057 8172
TIME...MOT...LOC 0119Z 308DEG 22KT 4052 8188

$$

ABE

1 follow-up statement

232 
WWUS51 KCLE 050139
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
939 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2011

OHC075-050149-
/O.CAN.KCLE.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-110605T0200Z/
HOLMES OH-
939 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HOLMES COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT 
SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN OHIO.

LAT...LON 4045 8167 4046 8202 4058 8202 4057 8172
TIME...MOT...LOC 0139Z 273DEG 43KT 4046 8170

$$

ABE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	24 min
Jun 4, 9:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Knox	30 min
Jun 5, 2:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Wyandot	64 min
Jun 5, 2:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Huron, Richland	61 min
Jun 5, 3:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Wayne	53 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.