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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 21, 2003Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2003, 5:59 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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 21, 2003, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2003, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 1009 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 212159
SVRCLE
OHC169-212245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
559 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 559 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOOSTER MOVING EAST ABOUT 
25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  DALTON
  ORRVILLE
  WOOSTER

LAT...LON 4077 8209 4075 8166 4097 8166 4095 8209

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		110 min
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		110 min
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		110 min
Jul 21, 5:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 5:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 8:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wyandot	50 min
Jul 21, 8:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	38 min
Jul 21, 9:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	44 min
Jul 21, 9:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	43 min
Jul 21, 9:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	50 min
Jul 21, 9:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	41 min
Jul 21, 9:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	46 min
Jul 21, 10:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	52 min
Jul 21, 1:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	49 min
Jul 21, 1:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Trumbull	3 hr
Jul 21, 1:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	24 min
Jul 21, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	49 min
Jul 21, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	40 min
Jul 21, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	46 min
Jul 21, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	49 min
Jul 21, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	43 min
Jul 21, 7:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	37 min
Jul 21, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	46 min
Jul 21, 7:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga, Medina, Portage, Summit, Trumbull	2 hr
Jul 21, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	35 min
Jul 21, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	49 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.