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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 28, 2002Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 12:56 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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 28, 2002, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 28, 1:05 PM EDT	Hail 1	Jefferson, OH	Quarter size hail was reported.
Apr 28, 1:12 PM EDT	Hail 1	Jefferson, OH	Dime to quarter size hail was reported.
Apr 28, 1:15 PM EDT	Hail 1	Jefferson, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 28, 11:45 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 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.

277 
WUUS51 KCLE 281656
SVRCLE
OHC007-281730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1256 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1256 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CONNEAUT
  JEFFERSON
  NORTH KINGSVILLE

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$
VRCEK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 10:55 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Apr 28, 11:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	46 min
Apr 28, 12:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Apr 28, 12:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Apr 28, 12:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Apr 28, 12:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	46 min
Apr 28, 12:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Richland	32 min
Apr 28, 12:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Medina	42 min
Apr 28, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	50 min
Apr 28, 1:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	43 min
Apr 28, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	52 min
Apr 28, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	43 min
Apr 28, 1:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wayne	38 min
Apr 28, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	49 min
Apr 28, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	40 min
Apr 28, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga	48 min
Apr 28, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	44 min
Apr 28, 1:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	24 min
Apr 28, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	47 min
Apr 28, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	63 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.