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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 10, 2014Portage County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 10, 2014, 4:58 PM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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: Sep 10, 2014, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2014, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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
Sep 10, 5:28 PM EDT	TORNADO	Stow, OH	A HOME DAMAGED NEAR GRAHAM AND NEWCOMER ROADS NEAR STOW AND MONROE HIGH SCHOOL.
Sep 10, 5:28 PM EDT	TORNADO	Stow, OH	NEAR INTERSECTION OF GRAHAM AND NEWCOMER JUST EAST OF STOW AND MONROE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL. DAMAGED ROOF OF A HOME.

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
Sep 10, 1:54 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

779 
WFUS51 KCLE 102058
TORCLE
OHC133-153-102145-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0026.140910T2058Z-140910T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
458 PM EDT WED SEP 10 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF AKRON...

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 456 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
  NEAR BARBERTON...OR 7 MILES EAST OF RITTMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.  TRAINED SPOTTERS CONFIRMED A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM 
  EARLIER IN WAYNE COUNTY. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CUYAHOGA FALLS...MOGADORE...TALLMADGE AND KENT

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. 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN OHIO.

&&

LAT...LON 4091 8164 4098 8165 4099 8169 4107 8168
      4122 8149 4122 8129 4099 8128 4099 8141
      4092 8141 4091 8143
TIME...MOT...LOC 2056Z 236DEG 25KT 4101 8163

$$
TK

1 follow-up statement

453 
WWUS51 KCLE 102110
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
510 PM EDT WED SEP 10 2014

OHC133-153-102145-
/O.CON.KCLE.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-140910T2145Z/
PORTAGE OH-SUMMIT OH-
510 PM EDT WED SEP 10 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL
SUMMIT AND WEST CENTRAL PORTAGE COUNTIES...

AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR AKRON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TALLMADGE...MOGADORE...KENT...CUYAHOGA FALLS AND AKRON

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHERN OHIO.

&&

LAT...LON 4101 8154 4101 8159 4107 8160 4122 8149
      4122 8129 4106 8128
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 236DEG 25KT 4106 8152

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 3:47 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		42 hr
Sep 10, 2:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lucas	7 hr
Sep 10, 3:00 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		25 hr
Sep 10, 4:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Medina, Summit, Wayne	47 min
Sep 10, 5:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Lake	14 min
Sep 10, 5:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark, Wayne	30 min
Sep 10, 5:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Geauga, Portage, Trumbull	42 min
Sep 10, 6:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Lucas	6 hr
Sep 10, 6:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	8 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.