Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2002, 12:30 AM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 3, 2002, 12:30 AM EDT (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2002, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 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 04:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 1:10 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | North Lima, OH | Dime size hail was reported two miles north of North Lima. |
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, 4.5 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
- 2230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
872 WUUS51 KCLE 030430 SVRCLE OHC099-030515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1230 AM EDT SAT AUG 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MAHONING COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 115 AM EDT * AT 1230 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CANFIELD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SALEM...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BOARDMAN CAMPBELL CANFIELD LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING 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. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 2, 10:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 10:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1015 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002 FCST GOING WELL ALTHOUGH THERE ARE A FEW MORE CLOUDS HANGING AROUND GVN UPR TROF STILL IN THE VCNTY. WL ADJUST FCST FOR PC MOST AREAS. ALSO NEED TO ADD SMALL RW CHCS IN MFD MILLERSBURG AREAS. OTRW NO MAJ CHGS. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. TK
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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.