Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2002, 5:43 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mahoning County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Boardman, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
639 WUUS51 KCLE 032143 SVRCLE OHC099-032230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 544 PM EDT TUE SEP 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MAHONING COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 544 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOARDMAN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF YOUNGSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BOARDMAN CAMPBELL YOUNGSTOWN 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 51 min |
| 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, 5:50 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.