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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 22, 2003Richland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 9:30 AM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 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 22, 2003, 9:30 AM EDT (13:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Richland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 814 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 221330
SVRCLE
OHC139-221415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
930 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 1015 AM EDT

* AT 930 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHELBY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SHELBY

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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 4090 8272 4099 8262 4099 8241 4087 8241
          4076 8259

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 9:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	41 min
Jul 21, 9:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Medina, Portage, Summit, Trumbull	5 hr
Jul 21, 9:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	25 min
Jul 22, 11:44 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit, Trumbull, Wayne	4 hr
Jul 22, 12:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	38 min
Jul 22, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	44 min
Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage, Trumbull	4 hr

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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.