Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 7:18 PM EDT for Portage County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 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
- May 31, 2000, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Trumbull County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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, 7:44 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 M | Newton Falls, OH | A 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in Newton Falls. |
| May 31, 7:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Newton Falls, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 312318 SVRCLE OHC133-155-312345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 718 PM EDT WED MAY 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO... TRUMBULL COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 718 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANTUA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF RAVENNA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... RAVENNA NEWTON FALLS MANTUA LORDSTOWN GARRETTSVILLE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEARESGT LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER 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, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 37 min |
| May 31, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 44 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 |
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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.