Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 2002, 4:46 PM EST for Marion County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 min. 4 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 4:46 PM EST (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:10 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Marion, OH | A small tornado touched down in rural Marion County about five miles north of Marion near the intersection of State Route 4 and U.S. Highway 23. The tornado was on the ground for only a couple hundred feet and caused no damage other than downing several trees |
| Nov 10, 5:15 PM EST | Hail 2.5 | Morral, OH | Tennis to golf ball size hail was observed in Salt Rock Township south of Morral. The hail caused an estimated $25,000 in damage to a school building that had over thirty windows broken. Many vehicles in the area were also damaged. |
| Nov 10, 5:17 PM EST | Hail 1 | Marion, OH | Quarter size hail was observed north of Marion. |
| Nov 10, 5:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed many trees in the western half of the county. At least two homes in Marion were damaged by fallen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 1:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 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 102146 SVRCLE OHC101-102245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 446 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 545 PM EST * AT 446 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA RUE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF KENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... LA RUE MARION MORRAL LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 58 min |
| Nov 10, 4:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 67 min |
| Nov 10, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 56 min |
| Nov 10, 5:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 5:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 5:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Marion | 67 min |
| Nov 10, 5:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Richland | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 5:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes | 42 min |
| Nov 10, 5:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 37 min |
| Nov 10, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford, Morrow | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 5:35 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Nov 10, 5:35 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Nov 10, 5:35 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Nov 10, 5:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Seneca | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 5:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 66 min |
| Nov 10, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 6:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 57 min |
| Nov 10, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 6:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 59 min |
| Nov 10, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 56 min |
| Nov 10, 6:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 6:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 6:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 49 min |
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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.