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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 15, 2000Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 2000, 7:36 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 15, 2000, 7:36 AM EDT (11:36 UTC)
Expired
Sep 15, 2000, 8:15 AM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 2000-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 169 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2000-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 151138
SVRCLE
OHC035-151215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
736 AM EDT FRI SEP 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 815 AM EDT

* AT 736 AM EDT...A NWS WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED AND RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF PARMA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES   
SOUTH OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZED HAIL WAS 
REPORTED IN PARMA.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SOLON
  PARMA
  CLEVELAND

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK 
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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.

$$

VRCEK

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.