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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 22, 2002Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2002, 5:40 PM EDT for Summit 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 22, 2002, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2002-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2002-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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.

649 
WUUS51 KCLE 222140
SVRCLE
OHC153-222230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
540 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 540 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF CUYAHOGA FALLS...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDINA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CUYAHOGA FALLS
  HUDSON
  TALLMADGE

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 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.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga42 min
Aug 22, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa45 min
Aug 22, 4:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull39 min
Aug 22, 4:28 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEGeauga47 min
Aug 22, 4:40 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage35 min
Aug 22, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit33 min
Aug 22, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage60 min
Aug 22, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull52 min
Aug 22, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina47 min
Aug 22, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne51 min
Aug 22, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark61 min
Aug 22, 6:22 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark, Summit23 min
Aug 22, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning57 min
Aug 22, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina38 min
Aug 22, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit40 min
Aug 22, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark48 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.