Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2002, 7:08 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 4, 2002, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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 4, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Toledo, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed many large trees in Toledo. Several homes and cars were damaged by trees. |
| Aug 4, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Clinton, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power poles along Lake Erie from Long Beach to Port Clinton. A 64 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in Port Clinton by an observer. Also in Port Clinton, a roof was torn off of a building and at least one car was dam |
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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
279 WUUS51 KCLE 042308 SVRCLE OHC095-123-050000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 709 PM EDT SUN AUG 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LUCAS COUNTY IN OHIO... OTTAWA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 709 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OAK HARBOR...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF TOLEDO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ELMORE OAK HARBOR $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| Aug 4, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| Aug 4, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 62 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.