Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2001, 10:28 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 10:28 PM EDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 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 02:32 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, 11:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Andover, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs north of Andover. |
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
276 WUUS51 KCLE 250228 SVRCLE OHC007-250315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1028 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHTABULA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1028 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORWELL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CONNEAUT JEFFERSON NORTH KINGSVILLE ORWELL 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 62 min |
| 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, 10:35 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.