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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Cleveland, OH

November 10, 2002Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 2002, 6:26 PM EST for Cuyahoga 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: Nov 10, 2002, 6:26 PM EST (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 7:30 PM EST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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, 7:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Bedford, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and several large limbs.
Nov 10, 7:08 PM EST	Tornado F1	Solon, OH	An F1 tornado crossed into Cuyahoga County from Summit County to the south of Glenwillow. The tornado traveled northeast for about four miles and dissipated to the east of Solon. The tornado caused some home damage in Glenwillow and tore the roof off of a bu

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, 4:35 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 348 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 310 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.

840 
WUUS51 KCLE 102326
SVRCLE
OHC035-110030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
626 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 730 PM EST

* AT 626 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF STRONGSVILLE...OR ABOUT 3
  MILES NORTHWEST OF MEDINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CLEVELAND
  CLEVELAND HEIGHTS
  EUCLID
  NORTH ROYALTON
  PARMA
  SOLON
  STRONGSVILLE

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.

FREQUENT INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF
OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE
INDOORS IF POSSIBLE.

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
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, 4:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	59 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, 6:45 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.