Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2000, 4:17 AM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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
- Oct 4, 2000, 4:17 AM EDT (08:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2000, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 4:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Twinsburg, OH | A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was estimated by an off duty NWS meteorologist. |
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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 040818 SVRCLE OHC133-153-040915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 417 AM EDT WED OCT 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO... SUMMIT COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 515 AM EDT * AT 417 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED 12 MILES WEST OF MACEDONIA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... TWINSBURG STREETSBORO MANTUA MACEDONIA HUDSON GARRETTSVILLE 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 FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$ LOMBARDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 3:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 38 min |
| Oct 4, 3:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 47 min |
| Oct 4, 4:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 58 min |
| Oct 4, 6:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 43 min |
| Oct 4, 6:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Summit | 43 min |
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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.