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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 13, 1999Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 1999, 4:45 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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
Oct 13, 1999, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 1999, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 13, 4:45 PM EDTHail 0.75Seville, OHThree-quarter inch hail reported near the intersection of Interstate 76 and State Route 3.
Oct 13, 5:20 PM EDTThunderstorm WindMedina, OHTwo trees downed near the intersection of Interstate 71 and State Route 18. One of the trees landed on a moving vehicle. The occupants of the car were uninjured.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 13, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1999-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 216 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1999-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 300 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
216 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Oct 13, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
230 PM EDT WED OCT 13 1999

HAVENT HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE AN IN DEPTH LOOK AT MODELS.  BASICALLY
HAVE FRONT MOVING THROUGH CLEVELAND AROUND 22Z...WITH THE FRONT
PUSHING WELL EAST OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT.  OBVIOUSLY POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT EAST OF THE FRONT.  MUCH COLDER AIR
PORING IN BEHIND THE FRONT...850 TEMPS DROP TO -2.  WILL STAY FAIRLY
CLOSE TO MOS AS FAR AS TEMPS. NEXT SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH AREA SUNDAY
WITH LINGERING LOW DEVELOPING MONDAY.

.CLE...NONE.

BRAY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa49 min
Oct 13, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca39 min
Oct 13, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron47 min
Oct 13, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion40 min
Oct 13, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford38 min
Oct 13, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain62 min
Oct 13, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Richland51 min
Oct 13, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Cuyahoga, Medina58 min
Oct 13, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow50 min
Oct 13, 4:08 PM EDTTornado WarningCLERichland37 min
Oct 13, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake64 min
Oct 13, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox42 min
Oct 13, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Geauga62 min
Oct 13, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne41 min
Oct 13, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit38 min
Oct 13, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes54 min
Oct 13, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage48 min
Oct 13, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark43 min
Oct 13, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull63 min
Oct 13, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake44 min
Oct 13, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne52 min
Oct 13, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit50 min
Oct 13, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula63 min
Oct 13, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning55 min
Oct 13, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage49 min
Oct 13, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark45 min
Oct 13, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull42 min
Oct 13, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie66 min
Oct 13, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford63 min
Oct 13, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie65 min
Oct 13, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford60 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.