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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 21, 2000Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2000, 12:28 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 21, 2000, 12:28 PM EDT (16:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2000, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 21, 12:35 PM EDTHail 0.75Niles, 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 2000-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 31 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 2000-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 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.

498 
WUUS51 KCLE 211628
SVRCLE
OHC155-211700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1228 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TRUMBULL COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 100 PM EDT

* AT 1228 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WEST FARMINGTON...OR ABOUT
  14 MILES NORTH OF WARREN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WEST FARMINGTON
  HUBBARD
  

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 9:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga41 min
Jul 21, 11:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Portage47 min
Jul 21, 11:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull44 min
Jul 21, 12:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshtabula, Lake25 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.