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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 27, 2000Crawford County, Marion County, Morrow County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2000, 2:04 AM EDT for Crawford County, Marion County, Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 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 27, 2000, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2000, 3:00 AM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, OH, Marion County, OH, Morrow County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:04 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 27, 2:30 AM EDTThunderstorm WindMt Gilead, OHThunderstorm winds downed several trees.
Aug 27, 2:40 AM EDTThunderstorm WindGalion, OHThunderstorm winds downed four large trees.

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2000-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 273 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2000-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 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
273 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 270605
SVRCLE
OHC033-101-117-270700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
204 AM EDT SUN AUG 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN OHIO...
  MARION COUNTY IN OHIO...
  MORROW COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 300 AM EDT

* AT 204 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOUNT GILEAD...OR ABOUT 6
  MILES EAST OF MARION...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NEW WASHINGTON
  MOUNT GILEAD
  GALION
  CRESTLINE
  CHATFIELD
  (BUCYRUS

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 2:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland63 min
Aug 27, 2:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox59 min
Aug 27, 3:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland53 min
Aug 27, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark28 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.