Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2002, 10:51 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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
- Jul 22, 2002, 10:51 PM EDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2002, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 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, 10:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brunswick, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and limbs in and around Brunswick. |
| Jul 22, 10:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Parma, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed many 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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1482 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
022 WUUS51 KCLE 230251 SVRCLE OHC035-103-230345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1051 PM EDT MON JUL 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN OHIO... MEDINA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT * AT 1051 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF STRONGSVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF ELYRIA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BRUNSWICK NORTH ROYALTON PARMA STRONGSVILLE IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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. $$ ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 9:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 3 hr | |
| Jul 22, 9:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 3 hr | |
| Jul 22, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Ottawa | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 61 min |
| Jul 22, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 10:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 3 hr |
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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.