Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2000, 6:37 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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 23, 2000, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashland County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 6:48 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Mifflin, OH |
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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
855 WUUS51 KCLE 232236 SVRCLE OHC005-232315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 637 PM EDT WED AUG 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 637 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF HAYESVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... LOUDONVILLE HAYESVILLE 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 23, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Richland | 40 min |
| Aug 23, 7:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron, Seneca | 2 hr |
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.