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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 28, 2000Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 7:11 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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 28, 2000, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lucas County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 28, 7:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindToledo, OHThunderstorm winds downed three trees, many large limbs and a large advertisement sign on the south side of Toledo. One of the trees landed on a car.

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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 343 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 190 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

486 
WUUS51 KCLE 282312
SVRCLE
OHC095-290000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 711 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF TOLEDO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  TOLEDO
  OREGON
   

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

$$

KUBINA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 9:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox42 min
Jul 28, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Wood53 min
Jul 28, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes50 min
Jul 28, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland52 min
Jul 28, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain42 min
Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga48 min
Jul 28, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga43 min
Jul 28, 5:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain2 hr
Jul 28, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage44 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.