Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 8:48 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 2, 2000, 8:48 PM EDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 9:02 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandusky, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. Two cars were crushed by trees. |
| Aug 2, 9:02 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandusky, OH | Thunderstorm winds knocked downed several trees. Two of the trees damaged cars. |
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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 030048 SVRCLE OHC043-030130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 848 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 848 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF CASTALIA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF SANDUSKY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SANDUSKY MILAN CASTALIA REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$ GARNET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 10:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2000Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.