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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 2015Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 2015, 7:15 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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: Jun 18, 2015, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2015, 7:49 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Jun 18, 7:15 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 N Canton, OH	10 POWER POLES DOWN ON 44TH STREET BETWEEN CLEVELAND AND MARKET STREETS

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
Jun 18, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

216 
WFUS51 KCLE 182315
TORCLE
OHC151-190000-
/O.NEW.KCLE.TO.W.0006.150618T2315Z-150619T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
715 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO...

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
    
* AT 714 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER MASSILLON...OR 8 MILES WEST OF CANTON... 
  AND IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  A SECOND STORM CAPABLE OF 
  PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS NEAR NORTH CANTON ALSO MOVING 
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EAST SPARTA AROUND 730 PM EDT.
  WAYNESBURG AROUND 735 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE PERRY
HEIGHTS...MAXIMO...LIMAVILLE...GREENTOWN...NORTH LAWRENCE...
UNIONTOWN...ROBERTSVILLE...CANAL FULTON...BEACH CITY AND MEYERS LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4064 8165 4091 8164 4091 8142 4099 8142
      4099 8109 4073 8109 4072 8124 4065 8124
      4065 8143 4066 8144 4064 8157
TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 315DEG 46KT 4079 8154 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

!KUBINA!

2 follow-up statements

585 
WWUS51 KCLE 182337
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
737 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2015

OHC151-190000-
/O.CON.KCLE.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-150619T0000Z/
STARK OH-
737 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN STARK COUNTY...
    
AT 733 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 
WAS LOCATED NEAR ALLIANCE...OR 13 MILES WEST OF SALEM...MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY A TRAINED 
SPOTTER JUST NORTH OF ALLIANCE AT 735 PM.   

THE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN STARK COUNTY THAT PROMPTED THE FIRST 
TORNADO WARNING HAS WEAKENED AS IS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A 
TORNADO. 
 

HAZARD...TORNADO. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE 
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE IS 
         LIKELY. 

THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHEASTERN STARK COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
MAXIMO AND LIMAVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4086 8135 4099 8114 4098 8109 4075 8109
TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 296DEG 42KT 4088 8111 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

!KUBINA!

859 
WWUS51 KCLE 182349
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
749 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2015

OHC151-182359-
/O.CAN.KCLE.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-150619T0000Z/
STARK OH-
749 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN STARK COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS
AND EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

BOTH TORNADO WARNINGS THAT WERE IN EFFECT FOR STARK COUNTY HAVE BEEN 
CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN OHIO.

LAT...LON 4086 8135 4099 8114 4098 8109 4075 8109
TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 315DEG 46KT 4073 8092 

$$

KUBINA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 1:10 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Seneca	31 hr
Jun 18, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	18 min
Jun 18, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		52 min
Jun 18, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	36 min
Jun 18, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark, Summit	32 min
Jun 18, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion, Morrow	24 min
Jun 18, 7:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	39 min
Jun 18, 7:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Stark, Summit	6 hr
Jun 18, 7:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Knox, Marion, Morrow	12 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.