Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 6:49 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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 28, 2002, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2002, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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 28, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Solon, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs. Two homes were damaged by the 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
071 WUUS51 KCLE 282249 SVRCLE OHC035-282330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 649 PM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 649 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CLEVELAND SOLON LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 34 min |
| Jul 27, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 54 min |
| Jul 27, 9:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 116 min | |
| Jul 27, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 106 min | |
| Jul 27, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 106 min | |
| Jul 27, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 63 min |
| Jul 27, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| Jul 27, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| Jul 28, 12:24 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 28, 1:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 28, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 28, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Jul 28, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Jul 28, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Jul 28, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 59 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.