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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 4, 2000Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2000, 3:58 AM EDT for Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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
Oct 4, 2000, 3:58 AM EDT (07:58 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 2000, 4:45 AM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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
Oct 4, 4:15 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 67 MCountywide, OHA 77 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the Fairport Harbor Light House. Dozens of trees were downed across the county by thunderstorm winds. Areas near Lake Erie were especially hard hit with considerable damage in Mentor and Madison. Several homes
Oct 4, 4:22 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 51 MChesterland, OHA 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in Chesterland.
Oct 4, 4:30 AM EDTThunderstorm WindNewbury, OHThunderstorm winds downed many trees and several telephone poles just north of Newbury Center.

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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 2000-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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 00:00Z on 2000-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-307 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 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 040759
SVRCLE
OHC055-085-040845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
358 AM EDT WED OCT 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GEAUGA COUNTY IN OHIO...
  LAKE COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 445 AM EDT

* AT 358 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EASTLAKE...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES EAST OF ELYRIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

FREQUENT INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF
OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE
INDOORS IF POSSIBLE.

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

$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 3:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga38 min
Oct 4, 4:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula58 min
Oct 4, 4:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit58 min
Oct 4, 6:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga43 min
Oct 4, 6:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Summit43 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.