Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2003, 9:34 PM EST for Erie County, Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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, 9:34 PM EST (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2003, 10:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Erie County, OH, Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
276
WUUS51 KCLE 050234
SVRCLE
OHC043-143-050315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
934 PM EST FRI APR 4 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...
* UNTIL 1015 PM EST
* AT 934 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF CASTALIA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF PORT CLINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CASTALIA
SANDUSKY
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 4145 8295 4147 8283 4146 8270 4141 8257
4131 8287
$$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, 9:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 44 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
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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.