Thursday, August 20, 2009

TORNADO WARNING ISSUED

The National Weather Service in Cleveland has issued a TORNADO WARNING for Northern Lorain County. This warning is in effect until 5:30 p.m.

At 4:37 p.m. National Weather Service Doppler Radar indicated a SEVERE THUNDERSTORM capable of producing a TORNADO. This DANGEROUS STORM was located near Amherst and moving northeast at 50 MPH.

Locations impacted include: Lorain, Elyria, Sheffield, Sheffield Lake, North Ridgeville, Avon and Avon Lake.

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.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

48 years and I've yet to see a real tornado. The local weather people, I should say channels 5 and 19/43 were playing this one like it was a computer game. Another fine job at ratings. Haas

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