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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 5, 2002Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 4:14 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 5, 2002, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Geauga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 5, 4:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindBainbridge, OHThunderstorm winds downed trees near Bainbridge and just north of Welshfield.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 5, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 2002-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 594 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2002-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 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
594 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1144 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 052014
SVRCLE
OHC055-052100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
414 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GEAUGA COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 414 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURTON...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES SOUTH OF CHARDON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BURTON
  MIDDLEFIELD

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.

$$

KL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 11:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula27 min
Jun 5, 12:08 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jun 5, 12:08 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jun 5, 1:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula61 min
Jun 5, 9:29 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jun 5, 9:29 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jun 5, 10:31 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE119 min
Jun 5, 10:31 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE119 min
Jun 5, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow50 min
Jun 5, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark49 min
Jun 5, 3:31 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark44 min
Jun 5, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox43 min
Jun 5, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning41 min
Jun 5, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne27 min
Jun 5, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes25 min
Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage33 min
Jun 5, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland28 min
Jun 5, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.