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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 2000Huron County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 9:27 PM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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
Aug 2, 2000, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2000, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Huron County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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
Aug 2, 10:10 PM EDTThunderstorm WindWakeman, OHThunderstorm winds downed several large limbs.

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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 00:00Z on 2000-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1331 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2000-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 030127
SVRCLE
OHC077-030215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
927 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 927 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF NORWALK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  EAST OF FREMONT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WAKEMAN
  NORWALK

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

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood46 min
Aug 2, 8:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock48 min
Aug 2, 8:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie42 min
Aug 2, 9:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula42 min
Aug 2, 9:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky39 min
Aug 2, 10:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.