Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2003, 9:41 PM EST for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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, 9:41 PM EST (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2003, 10:15 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ashland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
393
WUUS51 KCLE 050241
SVRCLE
OHC005-050315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
941 PM EST FRI APR 4 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 1015 PM EST
* AT 941 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF LOUDONVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
HAYESVILLE
LOUDONVILLE
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 4073 8238 4084 8213 4068 8213 4066 8223
4059 8223 4056 8232
$$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, 9:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Sandusky | 41 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.