Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 11:31 PM EDT for Geauga County, Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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, 11:31 PM EDT (03:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Geauga County, OH, Portage County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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 7, 12:29 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Parkman, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and many large limbs in Parkman. One of the trees landed on a moving car. The driver of the car was transported to a local hospital and treated for minor injuries. |
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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
665 WUUS51 KCLE 070331 SVRCLE OHC055-133-070430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1131 PM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GEAUGA COUNTY IN OHIO... PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT * AT 1131 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH RUSSELL...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... STREETSBORO SOUTH RUSSELL RAVENNA MIDDLEFIELD MANTUA GARRETTSVILLE BURTON 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, 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, 11:43 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.