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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 3, 2002Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2002, 3:24 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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: Sep 3, 2002, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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
Sep 3, 3:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	North Royalton, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs in North Royalton and Cleveland.

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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 716 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 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.

311 
WUUS51 KCLE 031924
SVRCLE
OHC035-032015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
324 PM EDT TUE SEP 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 324 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PARMA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  SOUTH OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NORTH ROYALTON
  PARMA
  SOLON

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 3, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	42 min
Sep 3, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	46 min
Sep 3, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	50 min
Sep 3, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	39 min
Sep 3, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	51 min
Sep 3, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	46 min
Sep 3, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	38 min
Sep 3, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	50 min
Sep 3, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	45 min
Sep 3, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	47 min
Sep 3, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	47 min
Sep 3, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	55 min
Sep 3, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	58 min
Sep 3, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	65 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.