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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 23, 2000Ashland County, Ohio

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 23, 6:48 PM EDTHail 0.75Mifflin, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 560 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland54 min
Aug 23, 6:20 PM EDTTornado WarningCLERichland40 min
Aug 23, 7:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron, Seneca2 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.