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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 16, 2000Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 6:31 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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, 7:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCanton, OHThunderstorm winds downed many trees and large limbs in the Canton and Waco areas. A 250 foot section of roof was peeled off of a building on the southwest side of Canton.

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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 2000-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 326 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 2000-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 228 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
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

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The text

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

978 
WUUS51 KCLE 162231
SVRCLE
OHC151-162330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 631 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILMOT...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF DOVER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WILMOT
  WAYNESBURG
  NAVARRE
  MINERVA
  MASSILLON
  LOUISVILLE
  EAST SPARTA
  CANTON
  BREWSTER

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.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland52 min
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

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.