Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2000, 6:17 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 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
- Oct 4, 2000, 6:17 AM EDT (10:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2000, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 43 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 10:19 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, 6:25 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Thunderstorm winds measured at 60 mph downed dozens of trees in Cleveland, Garfield Heights and Euclid. Euclid was especially hard hit with several homes damaged by fallen trees. In downtown Cleveland, 13 windows were blown out of a government office buildin |
| Oct 4, 6:28 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 M | Garfield Hgts, OH | A 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in Garfield Heights. |
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, 10.3 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.
- 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 041018 COR SVRCLE OHC035-041100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 618 AM EDT WED OCT 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 700 AM EDT * AT 618 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... EUCLID CLEVELAND HEIGHTS CLEVELAND REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVIACE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$ CORRECTED SPEED OF MOTION OF STORM
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, 4:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 58 min |
| Oct 4, 6:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Summit | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.