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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 2003Ashland County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 284 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 8:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Aug 2, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland53 min
Aug 2, 4:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland114 min
Aug 2, 5:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Aug 2, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa42 min
Aug 2, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas55 min
Aug 2, 6:56 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr

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.