Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 8:37 PM EDT for Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report 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, 8:37 PM EDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sandusky County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 9:07 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Kingsway, 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 100038 SVRCLE OHC143-100145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 837 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 837 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF GIBSONBURG...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WOODVILLE GIBSONBURG FREMONT 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THnE 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, 8:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 57 min |
| May 9, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 47 min |
| May 9, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 46 min |
| May 10, 12:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Knox, Richland | 39 min |
| May 10, 1:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 50 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.