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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 14, 2002Cuyahoga County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 4:19 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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 14, 2002, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 14, 4:25 PM EDTThunderstorm WindRichfield, OHThunderstorm winds downed trees in Richfield and Twinsburg.
Jun 14, 4:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindUniversity Hgts, OHThunderstorm winds downed trees in University Heights and Solon.

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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 2002-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 295 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 2002-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
295 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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 142019
SVRCLE
OHC035-153-142100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
418 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 418 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF PARMA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH
  OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Portage43 min
Jun 14, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron44 min
Jun 14, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain49 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Trumbull66 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.