Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 5:39 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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
- Jul 14, 2000, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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 14, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 M | Bay Vlg, OH | A 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in Bay Village. A large tree was blown down. |
| Jul 14, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 59 M | Sandusky, OH | A 68 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in Sandusky. Many trees were downed and two homes were damaged by fallen trees. Two other trees were knocked down five miles south of Sandusky. |
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 14, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
537 WUUS51 KCLE 142139 SVRCLE OHC035-043-093-142245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 539 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN OHIO... ERIE COUNTY IN OHIO... LORAIN COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 539 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES WEST OF EUCLID TO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANDUSKY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF CLEVELAND TO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANDUSKY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WESTLAKE VERMILION SOLON SANDUSKY PARMA NORTH RIDGEVILLE LORAIN LAKEWOOD EUCLID ELYRIA CLEVELAND HEIGHTS CLEVELAND AVON LAKE AMHERST DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 11:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Summit | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 1:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 2:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Morrow | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Seneca | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Marion | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Richland | 60 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.