Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2003, 9:47 PM EST for Medina County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 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, 9:47 PM EST (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2003, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Medina County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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.
245
WUUS51 KCLE 050247
SVRCLE
OHC103-169-050330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
947 PM EST FRI APR 4 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
* UNTIL 1030 PM EST
* AT 947 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRESTON...OR ABOUT 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
BRUNSWICK
CRESTON
LODI
MEDINA
WADSWORTH
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 4127 8176 4121 8168 4107 8168 4089 8193
4102 8210 4127 8180
$$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, 9:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 34 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, 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.