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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 4, 2000Cuyahoga County, Ohio

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 4, 6:25 AM EDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, OHThunderstorm 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 EDTThunderstorm Wind 51 MGarfield Hgts, OHA 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.

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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 3:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga38 min
Oct 4, 3:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake47 min
Oct 4, 4:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula58 min
Oct 4, 4:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit58 min
Oct 4, 6:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Summit43 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.