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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 4, 2003Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2003, 8:54 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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 4, 2003, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

554 
WUUS51 KCLE 050054
SVRCLE
OHC035-050200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
853 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 853 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR             
  INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF CHAGRIN          
  FALLS...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  EUCLID
  SOLON

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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 4163 8148 4156 8147 4156 8138 4138 8138
          4140 8153 4159 8156

$$
ADAMS

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 4, 3:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 3:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
335 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

AXIS OF HIGHEST INSTABILITY ACRS N CNTRL AND NE OH BEING DRIVEN
SOMEWHAT BY DAYTIME HEATING AND SHUD BGN TO DECREASE BY SUNSET.
FLLOD WATCH WL NOT NEED TO BE EXTENDED EXCEPT WL ISSUE FOR EASTERN
COUNTIES FM CANTON TO YTOWN WHERE ACTIVITY IS GOING GOOD AND SOME
TRAINING TAKING PLACE WITH LOW FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE. VORT MAX MAKING
DECENT PROGRESS ACRS S CNTRL INDIANA AND PROGGED INTO S CNTRL OH
OVNGT. ACTIVITY ASSOCD WITH WAVE AND TROUGH MAY CONT WELL INTO THE
NGT BUT MOST SHUD STAY S OF FCST AREA. BULK OF ACTIVITY LINED UP
WITH TROUGH ALOFT WHICH SHUD SHIFT E OF FCST AREA BY TOMORROW NGT
WITH LESSER CHANCES DURING THE DAY TUE NW OH. LESSER CHANCES WED BUT
STILL COULD BE A FEW CELLS AROUND THEN A SOMEWHAT BETTER CHC THUR AS
ANOTHER WAVE ROTATES INTO TROUGH. TEMP GUIDANCE OK AND DIURNAL
RANGES SHUD INCR AS SKIES OPEN UP SOME NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

.CLE...
OH...FLOOD WATCH NE OH TIL 10 PM OHZ022-023-032-033.
PA...NONE.

KOSARIK

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 5:04 AM EDT, 15 hours 50 minutes before

OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-041100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
504 AM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO
AND A PORTION OF NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TODAY...AND THERE IS A SLIGHT
RISK THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE MAINLY DURING
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY ALSO
OCCUR AND COULD CAUSE SOME LOCALIZED STREET AND LOWLAND FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:44 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
444 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0333 PM    HUBBARD                   OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/03   TRUMBULL

FMK

Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
453 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0435 PM    PORTAGE                   OH   .88 INCH HAIL
08/04/03   WOOD

FMK

Local storm report, Aug 4, 5:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
538 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 PM    MAGNOLIA                  OH   FLOOD
08/04/03   STARK                          MANY FLOODED ROADS AND
                                          DITCHES.

0510 PM    MADISON                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03   LAKE                           COUPLE TREES AND SOME
                                          WIRES KNOCKED DOWN.

FMK

Local storm report, Aug 4, 7:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
747 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 PM    MOGADORE                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03   SUMMIT                         SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS DOWN
                                          ON PHONE LINES.

0605 PM    BOWLING GREEN             OH   FLASH FLOODS
08/04/03   WOOD                           NUMEROUS ROADS WITH WATER
                                          1 TO 3 FEET DEEP.

0600 PM    VAN BUREN                 OH   FLOOD
08/04/03   HANCOCK                        ROADS WITH HIGH WATER.

FMK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 11:35 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		60 min
Aug 5, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		66 min
Aug 5, 3:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	3 hr
Aug 5, 4:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lucas	3 hr
Aug 5, 5:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Medina	4 hr
Aug 5, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	66 min
Aug 5, 6:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	3 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.