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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 4, 2003Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2003, 9:22 PM EST for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 4, 2003, 9:22 PM EST (02:22 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 2003, 9:45 PM EST
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 00:00Z on 2003-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 279 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 00:00Z on 2003-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 282 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
279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

757 
WUUS51 KCLE 050222
SVRCLE
OHC093-050245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
922 PM EST FRI APR 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 945 PM EST

* AT 922 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WELLINGTON...OR ABOUT 18
  MILES NORTH OF ASHLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WELLINGTON

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

LAT...LON 4137 8219 4122 8199 4121 8206 4116 8208
          4106 8222 4106 8233 4125 8233

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 8:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock37 min
Apr 4, 8:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion, Wyandot34 min
Apr 4, 8:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca37 min
Apr 4, 9:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky24 min
Apr 4, 9:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford34 min
Apr 4, 9:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland28 min
Apr 4, 9:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood44 min
Apr 4, 9:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Sandusky41 min
Apr 4, 9:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland34 min
Apr 4, 9:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne43 min
Apr 4, 10:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca49 min
Apr 4, 11:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Summit50 min
Apr 5, 12:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Trumbull40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.