Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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 9, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 9, 6:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 75 M | Ashtabula, OH | A 86 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the Ashtabula Light House. Several dozen trees were downed in the City of Ashtabula. At least two homes were damaged by fallen trees. Other trees were downed to the west of Ashtabula in Saybrook Township. |
| Aug 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Andover, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several dozen trees at a campground located just south of Andover. A building at the campground was damaged and a nearby gazebo destroyed. |
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 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 092230 SVRCLE OHC007-092330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 630 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHTABULA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 628 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHTABULA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE ASHTABULA JEFFERSON ANDOVER 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 9, 7:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lake | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.