Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2002, 6:14 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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 22, 2002, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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 22, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Canal Fulton, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Canal Fulton and Greentown and two large limbs in North Canton. |
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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
605 WUUS51 KCLE 222214 SVRCLE OHC151-222315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 613 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 613 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RAVENNA TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AKRON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ALLIANCE CANTON HARTVILLE LOUISVILLE MINERVA NORTH CANTON DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN HOUR 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 42 min |
| Aug 22, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 39 min |
| Aug 22, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 35 min |
| Aug 22, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 60 min |
| Aug 22, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 50 min |
| Aug 22, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 51 min |
| Aug 22, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 23 min |
| Aug 22, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 57 min |
| Aug 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 38 min |
| Aug 22, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 40 min |
| Aug 22, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 48 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.