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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 2000Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 7:53 PM EDT for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 min. 7 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: May 9, 2000, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
May 9, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 51 M	Countywide, OH	A 59 mph thunderstorm gust was measured at Toledo Express Airport at 806 pm EDT. Thunderstorm winds did extensive damage with trees downed throughout the county including in the cities of Toledo, Sylvania, Perrysburg and Maumee. A grocery store in Toledo sus
May 9, 8:10 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Hoytville, OH	A small tornado touched down just north of Hoytville on Needles Road and damaged two mobile homes. Both mobile homes suffered structural damage and were knocked off foundations. After traveling approximately 100 yards on the ground the tornado lifted back in
May 9, 8:10 PM EDT	Hail 4.5	Tontogany, OH	Hail as large as softballs and shaped at times like candy bars fell at Tontogany for approximately ten minutes. Damage was extensive with 160 of the 200 homes in the village sustaining damage. Most of the damage was from broken windows, but over 100 hundred
May 9, 8:18 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Countywide, OH	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph. Many trees were downed in Rossford and Bowling Green.
May 9, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Sylvania, OH	A tornado briefly touched down approximately two miles west of Sylvania. A nearly completed house was destroyed by the tornado before it lifted back into the clouds.
May 9, 8:23 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Pemberville, OH	A small tornado touched down briefly in a field just outside of Pemberville. No damage occurred.
May 9, 8:29 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Walbridge, OH

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
May 9, 4:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 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.

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 092354
SVRCLE
OHC095-173-100100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
753 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN OHIO
  LUCAS COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 753 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF NAPOLEON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WHITEHOUSE
  WESTON
  WATERVILLE
  TOLEDO
  ROSSFORD
  PERRYSBURG
  OREGON
  NORTHWOOD
  BOWLING GREEN

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR ARE
EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$

REL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	39 min
May 9, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	52 min
May 9, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	68 min
May 9, 7:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	61 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.