Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 6:38 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 min. 4 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
- May 31, 2000, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 7 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:44 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Avon Lake, OH | |
| May 31, 6:44 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Avon Lake, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed many trees. |
| May 31, 7:08 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Rocky River, OH | |
| May 31, 7:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | North Olmsted, OH |
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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 312238 SVRCLE OHC035-093-312315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 638 PM EDT WED MAY 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN OHIO... LORAIN COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 638 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AVON LAKE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF LORAIN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WESTLAKE NORTH RIDGEVILLE LAKEWOOD EUCLID CLEVELAND HEIGHTS CLEVELAND AVON LAKE 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 WEAT HER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 38 min |
| May 31, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 44 min |
| May 31, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 27 min |
| May 31, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 64 min |
| May 31, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 48 min |
| May 31, 7:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga | 2 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.