Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 19, 2001Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2001, 8:17 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2001, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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 200021
SVRCLE

OHC155-200100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
817 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 817 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TRUMBULL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF WARREN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NILES
  GIRARD

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSfED. 
SOME MINOR STREET AND STREAM FLOODING MAY OCCUR.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$
FMK

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 19, 3:41 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:41 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
341 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2001

LATEST RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS POPCORN VARIETY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
ENTIRE FORECAST AREA. CELLS ARE POPPING BUT WEAKEN RAPIDLY AS THEY
PULSE. WILL KEEP A MENTION OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN OVER THE
AREA THIS EVENING.

NOT MUCH CHANGE EXPECTED THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY AS STRONG 500 MB
RIDGE BUILDS EAST OVER THE AREA. SURFACE HIGH OVER NORTHEASTERN
UNITED STATES WILL RETROGRADE SOUTHWEST AND BUILD ACROSS THE AREA AS
WELL.  ALL IN ALL...HAZY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS SETTING UP FOR THE
NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. WILL KEEP AN ISOLATED CHANCE OF A SHOWER OR
THUNDERSTORM ON FRIDAY AS MOISTURE LINGERS OVER THE AREA AND
INSTABILITY TYPE PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP.

FRIDAY NIGHT SHOULD BE FOR THE MOST PART CLEAR AS DRIER MID AND
UPPER LEVEL AIR DOMINATES THE FORECAST AREA INTO SATURDAY.

NEXT CHANCE OF SYNOPTIC TYPE THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME MONDAY NIGHT AS
A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH INTO THE AREA. WILL MENTION A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS TUESDAY MORNING. THEN HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS
INTO THE AREA FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK WITH A GRADUAL WARMING TREND
AGAIN.

UPPED TEMPERATURES A TAD OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS. GUIDANCE WAS
RUNNING A TAD LOW IN THE PAST.

.CLE...
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 8:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2001 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.