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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 4, 2003Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2003, 9:31 PM EST for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 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, 9:31 PM EST (02:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2003, 10:15 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 386 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

446 
WUUS51 KCLE 050231
SVRCLE
OHC095-173-050315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LUCAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...

* UNTIL 1015 PM EST

* AT 931 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF SYLVANIA TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTON...OR ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMBERTVILLE TO 12 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF NAPOLEON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HOLLAND
  PERRYSBURG
  SYLVANIA
  TOLEDO
  WATERVILLE
  WESTON
  WHITEHOUSE

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 4186 8386 4113 8414 4130 8369 4202 8341

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 8:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	37 min
Apr 4, 8:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion, Wyandot	34 min
Apr 4, 8:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	37 min
Apr 4, 9:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	24 min
Apr 4, 9:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	34 min
Apr 4, 9:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	28 min
Apr 4, 9:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	23 min
Apr 4, 9:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Sandusky	41 min
Apr 4, 9:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	34 min
Apr 4, 9:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	43 min
Apr 4, 10:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca	49 min
Apr 4, 11:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Summit	50 min
Apr 5, 12:05 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Trumbull	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003 Every 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.