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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 22, 2002Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2002, 6:37 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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, 6:39 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wadsworth, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and many large limbs.

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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

399 
WUUS51 KCLE 222237
SVRCLE
OHC103-222315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 637 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF WADSWORTH...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  SOUTH OF MEDINA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WADSWORTH

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND 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.

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 22, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
230 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002

SCT SHRA/TSRA CONT TO PASS JUST N OF FA THIS AFT AS BNDRY RMNS OVR
LWR MI.  THIS BNDRY WL BE THE MAIN WX MAKER NEXT 48 HRS AND MODELS
HANDLING THIS FEATURE A LTTL DIFFERENTLY.  AVN AND ESP NGM QUICKER
MOVG FNT S AND BOTH PUSH BNDRY INTO SRN OH BY THIS TIME TMRW.  ETA
ON THE OTHR HAND MOVES BNDRY OVR NRN OH AND THEN STALLS IT OUT.  FOR
NOW PREFER ETA SOL AS IT DOESN/T APPR THERE WL BE ENUF OF A PUSH TO
GET BNDRY S OF FA.  NMRS WAVES WL ALSO MOV E ACRS FA AND WITH PWATS
OVR 2 INCHES TGNT INTO TMRW WL WORD FOR LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS TGNT
AND SRNS AREAS ON FRI.  CHC POPS TMRW NGT.  SHOULD BE DRYG ON SAT
WITH CHC POPS SRN AND ERN AREAS THRU MIDDAY.  GUID TEMPS LOOK OK.

.CLE...
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.

KUBINA

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, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	61 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, 6:50 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.