Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2002, 7:41 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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
- Sep 19, 2002, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2002, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ottawa County, OH, Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 19, 7:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed three large trees. |
| Sep 19, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Genoa, OH | Thunderstorm winds snapped a power pole and downed several large tree 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
927 WUUS51 KCLE 192341 SVRCLE OHC123-143-200045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 740 PM EDT THU SEP 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OTTAWA COUNTY IN OHIO... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 740 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF GIBSONBURG...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ELMORE FREMONT GIBSONBURG OAK HARBOR PORT CLINTON WOODVILLE 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. $$ ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 4:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 62 min |
| Sep 19, 5:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 54 min |
| Sep 19, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 53 min |
| Sep 19, 7:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.