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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 14, 2000Medina County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 12:40 PM EDT for Medina County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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: Jul 14, 2000, 12:40 PM EDT (16:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Medina County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 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, 1:00 PM EDT	Hail 1	Akron, OH
Jul 14, 1:14 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Barberton, 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 141640
SVRCLE
OHC103-153-141730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1240 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEDINA COUNTY IN OHIO...
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WADSWORTH...OR ABOUT 6
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEDINA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WADSWORTH
  TALLMADGE
  MOGADORE
  MEDINA
  CUYAHOGA FALLS
  BARBERTON
  AKRON

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.

$$

LAPLANTE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 11:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	40 min
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, 12:54 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

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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.