Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2003, 4:26 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 2, 2003, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2003, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KCLE 022026
SVRCLE
OHC005-022130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
426 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 530 PM EDT
* AT 426 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYESVILLE...OR ABOUT 9
MILES EAST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
HAYESVILLE
ASHLAND
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL IN PLYMOUTH OF
RICHLAND COUTNY.
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 4083 8240 4092 8213 4070 8213 4066 8232
4073 8232 4073 8238
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 2, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 4:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Richland | 114 min |
| Aug 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 2, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 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.