Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2002, 1:17 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 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
- Jul 19, 2002, 1:17 PM EDT (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2002, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mahoning County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 1:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Damascus, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed two large tree limbs. |
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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
575 WUUS51 KCLE 191717 SVRCLE OHC099-191745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 117 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MAHONING COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 145 PM EDT * AT 117 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF CANFIELD...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALEM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CANFIELD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 56 min |
| Jul 19, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 59 min |
| Jul 19, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.