Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 8:46 PM EDT for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 min. 3 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 6, 2000, 8:46 PM EDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 9:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Waterville, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Waterville and Toledo. |
| Aug 6, 9:11 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Toledo, OH | |
| Aug 6, 9:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees throughout the county. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
989 WUUS51 KCLE 070046 SVRCLE OHC095-173-070145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 846 PM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LUCAS COUNTY IN OHIO... WOOD COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 846 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF WHITEHOUSE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF NAPOLEON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WHITEHOUSE WATERVILLE ROSSFORD PERRYSBURG NORTHWOOD BOWLING GREEN 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. $$ ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 9:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca, Wyandot | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Huron | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 10:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain | 51 min |
| Aug 6, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 11:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage | 59 min |
| Aug 6, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 62 min |
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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.