Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 5:07 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 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
- May 9, 2000, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ottawa County, OH, Sandusky County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees throughout the county. A barn was blown down just north of Elliston. A nearby house also sustained minor roof damage. Trees and a two car garage were blown down northeast of Graytown. Trees were also knocked down in Oak Harb |
| May 9, 5:37 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Genoa, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 092108 SVRCLE OHC123-143-092215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 507 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN OHIO OTTAWA COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 507 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF WOODVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WOODVILLE PORT CLINTON OAK HARBOR GENOA ELMORE THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW E NFORCEMENT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 39 min |
| May 9, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 52 min |
| May 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 67 min |
| May 9, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 61 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.