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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2003, 4:13 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 17 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
- Jul 7, 2003, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 072013 SVRCLE OHC103-072030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 413 PM EDT MON JUL 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 413 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WADSWORTH...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEDINA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WADSWORTH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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. LAT...LON 4116 8181 4113 8168 4099 8168 4101 8191 $$ ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 7, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 7, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 7, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 67 min |
| Jul 7, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 28 min |
| Jul 7, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 3:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 51 min |
| Jul 7, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage, Summit | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 4:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.