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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 24, 2001Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2001, 8:13 PM EDT for Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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: Oct 24, 2001, 8:13 PM EDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2001, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hancock County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 24, 8:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed dozens of trees and 35 power poles in the county. North Baltimore was hardest hit with 20 power poles and over a dozen trees downed. Several homes and cars were severely damaged in North Baltimore. Trees and poles were also blown d
Oct 24, 8:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power poles in Van Lue, Van Buren, Shawtown and Jackson Township.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 24, 6:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

795 
WUUS51 KCLE 250013
SVRCLE
OHC063-173-250115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
813 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN OHIO...
  WOOD COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 813 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCOMB...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF OTTAWA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BOWLING GREEN
  MCCOMB
  NORTH BALTIMORE
  WESTON

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.

$$

REL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 24, 8:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	38 min
Oct 24, 8:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		111 min
Oct 24, 8:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		111 min
Oct 24, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	64 min
Oct 24, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	64 min
Oct 24, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	50 min
Oct 24, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	39 min
Oct 24, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	52 min
Oct 24, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Oct 24, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Oct 24, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Oct 24, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Oct 24, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Oct 24, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Oct 24, 9:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga	39 min
Oct 24, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	42 min
Oct 24, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	23 min
Oct 24, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	47 min
Oct 24, 10:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Wayne	40 min
Oct 24, 10:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	49 min
Oct 24, 11:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	43 min
Oct 24, 11:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	25 min
Oct 24, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Portage	46 min
Oct 24, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	46 min
Oct 24, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Oct 24, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Oct 24, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Oct 24, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Oct 24, 11:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Mahoning, Trumbull	48 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.