Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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 16, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holmes County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees two miles south of Millersburg. |
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
402 WUUS51 KCLE 162220 SVRCLE OHC075-162300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 620 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HOLMES COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 620 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILLERSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MILLERSBURG HOLMESVILLE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS WHICH MAY BE WASHED OUT. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$ ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 6:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Knox | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 59 min |
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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.