Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2002, 4:38 PM EDT for Portage County, Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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 22, 2002, 4:38 PM EDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 22, 4:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Atwater, OH | Dime size hail was observed. |
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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
045 WUUS51 KCLE 222038 SVRCLE OHC133-151-222130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 438 PM EDT MON JUL 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO... STARK COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 438 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARTVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GARRETTSVILLE HARTVILLE RAVENNA THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS TO AROUND 60 AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 12:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 22, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 43 min |
| Jul 22, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 3 hr |
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.