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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 31, 2000Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 7:41 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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
May 31, 8:10 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, OHThunderstorm winds downed several trees near Jefferson and Pierpoint.

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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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°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 312341
SVRCLE
OHC007-010045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
741 PM EDT WED MAY 31 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ASHTABULA COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 741 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES EAST OF CHARDON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  JEFFERSON
  ANDOVER

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
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit38 min
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, 7:42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.