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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 2, 2000Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 12:42 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 2, 2000, 12:42 PM EDT (16:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 2000-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 798 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
798 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 021642
SVRCLE
OHC153-021730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1242 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1242 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF MACEDONIA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  SOUTH OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  TWINSBURG
  MACEDONIA
  HUDSON

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

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

$$

REL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 12:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga38 min
Jun 2, 12:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula65 min
Jun 2, 12:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Wayne47 min
Jun 2, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox, Morrow56 min
Jun 2, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Holmes54 min
Jun 2, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark60 min
Jun 2, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning59 min
Jun 2, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage25 min

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.