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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 16, 2000Richland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 3:53 PM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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
Jun 16, 2000, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Richland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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
Jun 16, 3:55 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, OHThunderstorm winds downed many trees in Shelby and two trees on the north side of Mansfield.
Jun 16, 4:04 PM EDTHail 0.75Shiloh, 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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

822 
WUUS51 KCLE 161954
SVRCLE
OHC139-162045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
353 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 353 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF SHELBY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SHELBY
  ONTARIO
  MANSFIELD

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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
Jun 16, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne24 min
Jun 16, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit65 min
Jun 16, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula65 min
Jun 16, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull60 min
Jun 16, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes40 min
Jun 16, 6:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Knox2 hr
Jun 16, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark59 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.