Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 15, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Solon, OH | Quarter size hail was reported. |
| Apr 15, 5:58 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Auburn Center, OH | Quarter size hail was reported. |
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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 152115 SVRCLE OHC035-055-152200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 514 PM EDT MON APR 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN OHIO... GEAUGA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 514 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF SOLON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BURTON CHARDON CHESTERLAND MIDDLEFIELD SOLON SOUTH RUSSELL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 10:01 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| Apr 15, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 55 min |
| Apr 15, 5:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 54 min |
| Apr 15, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 55 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.