Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 1:17 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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, 1:17 PM EDT (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:16 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, 1:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakemore, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees south of Lakemore in Springfield Township. |
| Apr 28, 1:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Barberton, OH | Dime size hail was reported to the east of Barberton in Coventry Township. |
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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 281717 SVRCLE OHC153-281800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 117 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMMIT COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 200 PM EDT * AT 117 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF CUYAHOGA FALLS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDINA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CUYAHOGA FALLS HUDSON MACEDONIA TWINSBURG THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 34 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, 1:22 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.