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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 14, 2002Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2002, 5:55 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 2002, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Ashland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

961 
WUUS51 KCLE 142155
SVRCLE
OHC005-142245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
556 PM EDT WED AUG 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUDONVILLE...OR ABOUT 15
  MILES SOUTH OF ASHLAND...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HAYESVILLE
  LOUDONVILLE
  POLK

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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 14, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
330 PM EDT WED AUG 14 2002

MOIST UNSTBL AMS WL RMN ACRS CWA THRU THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.  WL KP
SCT SHWRS/TSTMS IN FCST TONIGHT AND THURS WITH EITHER LKLY OR HIGH
CHC POPS.  THURS NIGHT AREA APRS BTWN DYING BNDRY ACRS THE ARE AND
APCHG CDFNT TO THE WEST SO WL DROP POPS OUT.  FOR FRI AND SAT WL
BRING CHC POPS BACK.  HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FWF MOST OF SHIFT SO A
LITTLE LATE WITH AFD ALTHOUGH MIS IS OUT.

.CLE...
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.

TK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 14, 5:40 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
540 PM EDT WED AUG 14 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0425 PM    GREEN                     OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/14/02   STARK                          NUMEROUS LARGE LIMBS DOWN
                                          AND POWER OUTAGES.

0435 PM    KINGSVILLE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/14/02   ASHTABULA                      NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN

0417 PM    AKRON-CANTON AIRPORT      OH   61 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/14/02   SUMMIT

0437 PM    RAVENNA                   OH   67 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/14/02   PORTAGE                        NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN

CORRECTED TIME OF KINGSVILLE REPORT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Aug 14, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Aug 14, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 14, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 14, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 14, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 14, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 14, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	51 min
Aug 14, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	40 min
Aug 14, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	33 min
Aug 14, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	43 min
Aug 14, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		117 min
Aug 14, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		117 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.