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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 28, 1999Cuyahoga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1999, 11:05 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1999, 11:05 PM EDT (03:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1999, 12:05 AM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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
Jul 28, 11:19 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 58	Fairport Harbor, OH	A 67 mph wind gust was measured at the Fairport Harbor Lighthouse.
Jul 28, 11:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Painesville, OH	Many large trees downed in Painesville. One tree pierced the roof of a nursing home with branches ending up less than a foot away from an elderly woman laying in bed. Three classic cars were severely damaged when the garage they were in was destroyed by a fa
Jul 28, 11:45 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Bedford, OH
Jul 28, 11:52 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland Lakefront, OH	Many trees were blown down in Cleveland, Euclid and Bedford Heights. A fallen tree poked a hole in the roof of a home in Bedford Heights and another tree did damage to a garage. Fallen limbs did minor damage to several cars.
Jul 28, 11:53 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Cleveland Lakefront, OH	A 64 mph wind gust was measured at Burke Lakefront Airport.
Jul 28, 11:58 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Valley View, OH	The tornado touched down near Schrieber Road then travelled south into Summit County. The damage path was around four miles in length and was non-continuous. Approximately 200 trees were downed along the damage path. A house in Valley View had several windo

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 28, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 8:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 8:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
855 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1999

SPC WILL BE COMING OUT WITH A SEVERE STORM WATCH WATCH FOR AT LEAST
THE OHIO COUNTIES. WILL ISSUE THE EVENING ZONE PACKAGE WHEN I ADD
THE HEADLINES. WILL FOCUS ON THE STORMS OVERNIGHT WITH NO
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES EXPECTED TO THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST.

.CLE...NONE.
KOSARIK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 11:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	60 min
Jul 28, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	59 min
Jul 28, 11:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	52 min
Jul 28, 11:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Trumbull	64 min
Jul 29, 12:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Summit	63 min
Jul 29, 12:05 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Summit	40 min
Jul 29, 12:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Stark	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.