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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 4, 2002Portage County, Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 2:49 PM EDT for Portage County, Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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
Jun 4, 2002, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2002, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 4, 3:00 PM EDTHail 0.88Hartville, OHNickel size hail was observed.
Jun 4, 3:00 PM EDTHail 0.75Atwater, OHDime size hail was observed.

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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2002-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 693 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2002-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

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

967 
WUUS51 KCLE 041849
SVRCLE
OHC133-151-041915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
249 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO...
  STARK COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 249 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HARTVILLE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  GREENSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  GREENTOWN
  HARTVILLE

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.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 9:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock33 min
Jun 3, 9:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot49 min
Jun 3, 9:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland40 min
Jun 3, 10:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford, Richland2 hr
Jun 3, 10:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland26 min
Jun 4, 12:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes110 min
Jun 4, 4:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes4 hr
Jun 4, 12:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca38 min
Jun 4, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron54 min
Jun 4, 1:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Lorain63 min
Jun 4, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga62 min
Jun 4, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga41 min
Jun 4, 2:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca40 min
Jun 4, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull48 min
Jun 4, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit30 min
Jun 4, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca33 min
Jun 4, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark48 min
Jun 4, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning37 min
Jun 4, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark41 min
Jun 4, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne53 min
Jun 4, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark59 min
Jun 4, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland35 min
Jun 4, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland45 min
Jun 4, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne56 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.