Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2001, 6:42 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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
- Apr 7, 2001, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2001, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ottawa County, OH, Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 6:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Oak Harbor, OH | Dime size hail was reported. |
| Apr 7, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Elmore, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed 8 trees at a golf course. A building at the golf course was also damaged. |
| Apr 7, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville, OH | Thunderstorm winds snapped 21 power poles near Woodville. |
| Apr 7, 6:53 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Oak Harbor, OH | Quarter size hail was reported. |
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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 541 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 072243 SVRCLE OHC123-143-072330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 642 PM EDT SAT APR 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OTTAWA COUNTY IN OHIO... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 642 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ELMORE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF FREMONT...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WOODVILLE PORT CLINTON OAK HARBOR GIBSONBURG GENOA ELMORE THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HAIL OF AN INCH OR JUST A LITTLE LARGER WAS REPORTED OVER LUCAS COUNTY. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.a $$ VRCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.