Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 1:19 PM EDT for Knox County, Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 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
- Jun 2, 2000, 1:19 PM EDT (17:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Knox County, OH, Morrow County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinsburg, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed up to a dozen large trees. One of the trees landed on a house and caused minor damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 021720 SVRCLE OHC083-117-021815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 119 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KNOX COUNTY IN OHIO... MORROW COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 119 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARDINGTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF MOUNT GILEAD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SPARTA MOUNT VERNON GAMBIER FREDERICKTOWN DANVILLE CHESTERVILLE CARDINGTON 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. $$ REL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.