Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 11:18 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 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, 11:18 PM EDT (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Pierpont, OH | Quarter size hail was observed. |
| Jun 4, 11:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pierpont, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 840 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 050318 SVRCLE OHC007-050345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1117 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHTABULA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT * AT 1117 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL ASHTABULA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE PIERPONT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 12:08 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 5, 12:08 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 5, 1:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 9:29 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 5, 9:29 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 5, 10:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| Jun 5, 10:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 119 min | |
| Jun 5, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 51 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.