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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 14, 2000Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 11:35 AM EDT for Lake 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: Jul 14, 2000, 11:35 AM EDT (15:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2000, 12:15 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:35 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
Jul 14, 11:55 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Madison, 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 141537
SVRCLE
OHC085-141615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1135 AM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1215 PM EDT

* AT 1135 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING LAKE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  PERRY
  MADISON
  MENTOR
  WILLOUGHBY

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.

$$

REL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 11:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	55 min
Jul 14, 11:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	47 min
Jul 14, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Summit	50 min
Jul 14, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	66 min
Jul 14, 12:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	49 min
Jul 14, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	66 min
Jul 14, 1:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	37 min
Jul 14, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Wyandot	63 min
Jul 14, 1:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark	52 min
Jul 14, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	40 min
Jul 14, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	32 min
Jul 14, 2:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	42 min
Jul 14, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	65 min
Jul 14, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion, Morrow	64 min
Jul 14, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	54 min
Jul 14, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	67 min
Jul 14, 2:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Morrow	64 min
Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	46 min
Jul 14, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	53 min
Jul 14, 3:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	2 hr
Jul 14, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	64 min
Jul 14, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	61 min
Jul 14, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	63 min
Jul 14, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	63 min
Jul 14, 5:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	3 hr
Jul 14, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	59 min
Jul 14, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	56 min
Jul 14, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Erie, Lorain	66 min
Jul 14, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	53 min
Jul 14, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Richland	60 min
Jul 14, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	65 min
Jul 14, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	56 min
Jul 14, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	66 min
Jul 14, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	60 min
Jul 14, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	57 min
Jul 14, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	66 min
Jul 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Marion	41 min
Jul 14, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Richland	60 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.