Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 7, 2001Ottawa County, Sandusky County, Ohio

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 7, 6:50 PM EDTHail 0.75Oak Harbor, OHDime size hail was reported.
Apr 7, 6:50 PM EDTThunderstorm WindElmore, OHThunderstorm winds downed 8 trees at a golf course. A building at the golf course was also damaged.
Apr 7, 6:50 PM EDTThunderstorm WindWoodville, OHThunderstorm winds snapped 21 power poles near Woodville.
Apr 7, 6:53 PM EDTHail 1Oak Harbor, OHQuarter 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2001-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2001-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 428 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood48 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.