Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 10:27 PM EDT for Richland 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 6, 2000, 10:27 PM EDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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 6, 10:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated at 80 mph downed hundreds of trees across the county. The most severe damage occurred on the northeast side of Mansfield along Piper and Stewart Roads where several homes and garages were damaged by fallen trees. |
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, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1953 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 14.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
666 WUUS51 KCLE 070227 SVRCLE OHC139-070315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1027 PM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICHLAND COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1027 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF SHELBY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUCYRUS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SHELBY ONTARIO MANSFIELD 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, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 59 min |
| 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, 10:39 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 |
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.