Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2002, 3:06 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 min. 3 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 21, 2002, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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 21, 3:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandusky, OH | Thunderstorm winds toppled two power poles. |
| Jun 21, 3:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Sandusky, OH | Dime size hail was observed. |
| Jun 21, 3:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 M | Vermilion, OH | A 61 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured. |
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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1509 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 211906 SVRCLE OHC043-212015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 305 PM EDT FRI JUN 21 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF SANDUSKY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SANDUSKY 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 21, 2:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| Jun 21, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 52 min |
| Jun 21, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 57 min |
| Jun 21, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 110 min | |
| Jun 21, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 110 min | |
| Jun 21, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 58 min |
| Jun 21, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 min | |
| Jun 21, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 min | |
| Jun 21, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 67 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.