Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 1:36 PM EDT for Ashland County, Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min. 3 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
- Jun 2, 2000, 1:36 PM EDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, OH, Holmes County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 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, 1:40 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Loudonville, OH | Hail the size of quarters fell at Mohican State Park just outside of Loudonville. |
| Jun 2, 1:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Loudonville, OH | Thunderstorm downburst winds estimated at 65 to 75 mph knocked down around two dozen trees in Mohican State Park. A distinct damage path approximately one quarter mile in length and 50 to 100 feet wide was observed. Most of the downed trees were 12 to 18 inc |
| Jun 2, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of trees. |
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
139 WUUS51 KCLE 021736 SVRCLE OHC005-075-021830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 136 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN OHIO... HOLMES COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 136 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUDONVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NASHVILLE MILLERSBURG LOUDONVILLE KILLBUCK HOLMESVILLE GLENMONT 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.
| 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, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 56 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.