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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 12, 2014Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2014, 6:36 PM EDT for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 24 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 12, 2014, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2014, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 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.

422 
WFUS51 KCLE 122236
TORCLE
OHC043-093-122300-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0002.140512T2236Z-140512T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
636 PM EDT MON MAY 12 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
  NORTHERN LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LORAIN...ELYRIA...

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 634 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  VERMILION...OR 9 MILES WEST OF LORAIN. THIS TORNADO WAS NEARLY
  STATIONARY.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

&&

LAT...LON 4151 8196 4141 8197 4132 8238 4141 8243
      4141 8242 4143 8236 4144 8235 4144 8227
      4148 8219 4152 8206 4152 8199
TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 056DEG 1KT 4142 8236

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	64 min
May 11, 8:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Knox, Morrow	3 hr
May 11, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	66 min
May 12, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		115 min
May 12, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Richland	44 min
May 12, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	47 min
May 12, 4:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Erie, Lorain	3 hr
May 12, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		77 min
May 12, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	42 min
May 12, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	3 hr
May 12, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 12, 7:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lorain	39 min
May 12, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		95 min
May 12, 7:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	48 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.