Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 2:31 PM EDT for Medina County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 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 16, 2002, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Medina County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Richfield, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed five or six trees. |
| Aug 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb southeast of Medina and a tree in Wadsworth. |
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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
899 WUUS51 KCLE 161831 SVRCLE OHC103-153-161915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 231 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEDINA COUNTY IN OHIO... SUMMIT COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 231 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF CUYAHOGA FALLS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDINA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... AKRON CUYAHOGA FALLS HUDSON MOGADORE TALLMADGE 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 24 min |
| Aug 16, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.