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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 6, 2000Geauga County, Portage County, Ohio

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 7, 12:29 AM EDTThunderstorm WindParkman, OHThunderstorm 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 6, 9:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2000-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2398 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2000-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 272 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood59 min
Aug 6, 9:11 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWood34 min
Aug 6, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky55 min
Aug 6, 9:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock63 min
Aug 6, 9:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca, Wyandot55 min
Aug 6, 10:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Huron43 min
Aug 6, 10:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie43 min
Aug 6, 10:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland48 min
Aug 6, 10:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Lorain51 min
Aug 6, 11:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne42 min
Aug 6, 11:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga54 min
Aug 6, 11:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit57 min
Aug 6, 11:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.