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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 3, 2002Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2002, 4:52 PM EDT for Wayne 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
Sep 3, 2002, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 3, 5:15 PM EDTHail 0.75Wooster, OHDime size hail was observed near Wooster.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 3, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 2002-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 716 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2002-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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.

187 
WUUS51 KCLE 032052
SVRCLE
OHC169-032130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 452 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOOSTER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  DALTON
  ORRVILLE
  WOOSTER

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 Sep 3, 4:10 PM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 4:10 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
410 PM EDT TUE SEP 3 2002

CDFNT MOVG THRU THE AREA. STG INSTBILTY AHD OF FNT HAS SET OFF TSTMS
IN WHICH SEVERAL RCHD SVR. XPCT MST OF THE ACTIVTY TO EXIT THE AREA
ERY THIS EVENG WI A FEW RESIDUAL SHAR OVR THE E/SE PTNS OF THE CWA
THIS EVENG. CLRG QUICKLY FOLLOWS. HI PRES BOTH AT THE SFC & ALF TO
BLD IN OVR THE NXT SEERAL DAYS. DRIER AIR WI GOOD SUBSIDNCE & THE
BLDG RDG TO KEEP US IN A DRY PD AT LEAST INTO NXT MON. TEMPS TO DROP
INTO THE MID/UPR 70S LOWS INOT THE 50S THEN SLOLY CLIMB INTO THE
LWR/MID 80S AS THE UPR RDG BLDS IN.

.CLE...
OH...SVR TSTM WATCH FOR THE SRN PTN OF THE CWA UNTL 9 PM.
PA...SVR TSTM WATCH FOR NW PA UNTL 6PM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga51 min
Sep 3, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull42 min
Sep 3, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga46 min
Sep 3, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit50 min
Sep 3, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina39 min
Sep 3, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage51 min
Sep 3, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark46 min
Sep 3, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit50 min
Sep 3, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull45 min
Sep 3, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark47 min
Sep 3, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning47 min
Sep 3, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox55 min
Sep 3, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark58 min
Sep 3, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes65 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.