Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 26, 2001Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2001, 1:57 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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
Aug 26, 2001, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2001, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2001-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 82 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2001-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 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 261757
SVRCLE
SVRCLE
OHC007-261845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
157 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 157 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH KINGSVILLE...OR
  ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF ASHTABULA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NORTH KINGSVILLE
  CONNEAUT

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

$$

KIELTYKA

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.