Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 2002, 9:01 PM EST for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2002, 9:01 PM EST (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
954 WUUS51 KCLE 110201 SVRCLE OHC151-110230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 901 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 930 PM EST * AT 901 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAST SPARTA...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... EAST SPARTA MINERVA WAYNESBURG 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, 7:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 65 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.