Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 1:43 PM EDT for Knox County, Ohio. It was in force for 17 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
- Jun 27, 2002, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Knox County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bladensburg, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed four 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1717 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 271743 SVRCLE OHC083-271800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 143 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KNOX COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 200 PM EDT * AT 143 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARTINSBURG...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT VERNON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MARTINSBURG THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 65 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.