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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Cleveland, OH

November 10, 2002Holmes County, Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 2002, 7:25 PM EST for Holmes County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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, 7:25 PM EST (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 8:30 PM EST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Holmes County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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, 7:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooster, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed many trees and large limbs in the Wooster and Smithville areas.
Nov 10, 7:40 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees across the county. A barn was blown off it's foundation near Nashville. A nearby house and two cars were also damaged.

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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 356 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 451 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 474 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

189 
WUUS51 KCLE 110025
SVRCLE
OHC075-169-110130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 830 PM EST

* AT 725 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF
  WOOSTER TO NASHVILLE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST
  OF WOOSTER TO 12 MILES WEST OF MILLERSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CRESTON
  DALTON
  DOYLESTOWN
  HOLMESVILLE
  MILLERSBURG
  MOUNT EATON
  NASHVILLE
  ORRVILLE
  RITTMAN
  SHREVE
  WOOSTER

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, 7:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	58 min
Nov 10, 7:11 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	64 min
Nov 10, 7:15 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	45 min
Nov 10, 7:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Lake	57 min
Nov 10, 7:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	66 min
Nov 10, 7:50 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Nov 10, 7:50 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Nov 10, 7:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	39 min
Nov 10, 7:58 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	47 min
Nov 10, 8:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	60 min
Nov 10, 9:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	29 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.