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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 28, 2000Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 2:25 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1099 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 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.

732 
WUUS51 KCLE 281826
SVRCLE
OHC075-281915-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF MILLERSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  MILLERSBURG

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.

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 10:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 10:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1015 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

VORT MOVING INTO WRN OHIO SHOWN ON MESO ETA AND EVIDENT ON WV LOOP.
LINE ON RADAR BGNG TO LIGHT UP FROM TOL AREA SSE THRU UPPER
SANDUSKY.  AMS VERY MOIST AND UNSTBL.  FCST PCPBLE WATER VALUES ON
BUFKIT FROM 1.3 TO 1.5 INCHES.  CAPES ARE FCST ARND 1500 FROM THE
EAST TO OVER 2000 J/KG WEST AS SHOWN BY BUFKIT AND MESOETA.
CONVECTION ATTM IS MOVG AT 15 TO 25 KTS BUT MBE VECTOR ON BUFKIT
INDICATES THAT STORM MOTN WL LKLY SLOW AS UPSTRM PROPAGATION INCRSS
THIS AFTN.  HEAVY RAFL POTENTIAL BEST ALG SFC BNDRYS SUNCH AS LAKE
BREEZE AND WK WARM FRONT FM CNTRL LKSHR SE THRU ERN PTN OF AREA.
LTL CHG TO ZONES.

.CLE...NONE.

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, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	53 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.