Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2001, 5:18 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report 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, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in East Sparta and Massillon and several power poles in Canton. |
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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
703 WUUS51 KCLE 092118 SVRCLE OHC151-092200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 518 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 518 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAST SPARTA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF CANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NORTH CANTON NAVARRE LOUISVILLE HARTVILLE EAST SPARTA CANTON ALLIANCE FREQUENT INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$ LOMBARDY
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, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 58 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.