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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 205, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 4, 2003Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2003, 7:05 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 2003, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 2003-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 185 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 11:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood59 min
Aug 3, 11:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE113 min
Aug 3, 11:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE113 min
Aug 4, 1:41 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWood34 min
Aug 4, 1:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 4, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull33 min
Aug 4, 3:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark2 hr
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE117 min
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE117 min
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE117 min
Aug 4, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood56 min
Aug 4, 4:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWood4 hr
Aug 4, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake63 min
Aug 4, 5:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock3 hr
Aug 4, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca64 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE118 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE118 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa58 min
Aug 4, 6:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESeneca4 hr
Aug 4, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark26 min
Aug 4, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage67 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.