Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2001, 5:02 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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
- Aug 9, 2001, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlestown, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed over 25 trees and four power poles. One of the trees fell on a house and caused some roof damage. |
| Aug 9, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayland, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1744 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
261 WUUS51 KCLE 092102 SVRCLE OHC133-092200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 502 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 502 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENT...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF AKRON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... RAVENNA KENT HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 6:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 119 min |
| Aug 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 2 hr |
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.