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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 28, 2000Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 2:07 PM EDT for Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2000, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hancock County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 343 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

678 
WUUS51 KCLE 281809
SVRCLE
OHC063-173-281900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
207 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 207 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCOMB...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF OTTAWA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  VAN BUREN
  NORTH BALTIMORE
  MCCOMB
  ARCADIA

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD
LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS
AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS WHICH MAY BE WASHED OUT.

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 27, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	42 min
Jul 28, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	50 min
Jul 28, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	52 min
Jul 28, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	42 min
Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	48 min
Jul 28, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	43 min
Jul 28, 5:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain	2 hr
Jul 28, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	44 min
Jul 28, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.