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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 31, 2000Portage County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 6:37 PM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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
May 31, 2000, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
38 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 22:52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 168 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 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 312237
SVRCLE
OHC133-153-312315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
637 PM EDT WED MAY 31 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO...
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 637 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF HUDSON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF RAVENNA...MOVING EAST AT 15 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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFGFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain37 min
May 31, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga44 min
May 31, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Trumbull27 min
May 31, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula64 min
May 31, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull48 min
May 31, 7:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga2 hr

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