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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 6, 2000Ashland County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 10:39 PM EDT for Ashland County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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, 10:39 PM EDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2000, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ashland County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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, 10:45 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Ashland, OH	A tornado touched down on the west side of Ashland near Lindale Avenue then moved east along West Main Street causing significant damage and four minor injuries. The damage path was 50 to 100 yards wide, intermittent and nearly three miles in length. The mo
Aug 6, 10:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Lorain, Columbia Station and Eaton Township. Several power poles were also snapped along State Route 82 in Eaton Township.
Aug 6, 11:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 M	Oberlin, OH	A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured.

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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2398 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.8
Supercell composite: 24.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 070240
SVRCLE
OHC005-093-070330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1039 PM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN OHIO...
  LORAIN COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT

* AT 1039 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAVANNAH...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORWALK...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WELLINGTON
  OBERLIN
  SAVANNAH
  POLK
  ASHLAND

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, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	48 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.