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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 31, 2002Medina County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 4:01 PM EDT for Medina County, Summit 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: May 31, 2002, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Medina County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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
May 31, 4:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudson, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees limbs.
May 31, 4:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Medina, OH	Nickel size hail was observed between Medina and Hinckley.
May 31, 4:55 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Tallmadge, OH	Dime size hail was observed.
May 31, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Tallmadge, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed two 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
May 31, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 164 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 312001
SVRCLE
OHC103-153-312100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
401 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEDINA COUNTY IN OHIO...
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 401 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BRUNSWICK...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF
  MEDINA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BRUNSWICK
  CUYAHOGA FALLS
  HUDSON
  MACEDONIA
  TWINSBURG

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.

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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$
REL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 31, 9:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 31, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	57 min
May 31, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	63 min
May 31, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	61 min
May 31, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow, Richland	58 min
May 31, 5:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	47 min
May 31, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	58 min
May 31, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	38 min
May 31, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	56 min
May 31, 6:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Knox	20 min
May 31, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	31 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.