Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Cleveland, OH
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Richfield, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Richfield and Twinsburg. |
| Jun 14, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | University Hgts, OH | Thunderstorm 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 min | |
| Jun 14, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 min | |
| Jun 14, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 min | |
| Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 66 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.