Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 5:44 PM EDT for Hancock County, Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 76 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 26, 2003, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 76 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hancock County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 262144 SVRCLE OHC063-095-173-262300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 544 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO... LUCAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO... WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 544 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCOMB...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF NAPOLEON...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... TOLEDO FINDLAY BOWLING GREEN HOLLAND NORTH BALTIMORE PERRYSBURG RAWSON WATERVILLE WHITEHOUSE THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 75 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. 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 4156 8417 4094 8427 4092 8343 4164 8346 $$ LAPLANTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 11:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 26, 1:54 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 26, 1:54 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 26, 3:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 3:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 3:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 4:22 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| Aug 26, 4:22 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| Aug 26, 9:36 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Aug 26, 9:36 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Aug 26, 9:36 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Aug 26, 9:36 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 114 min | |
| Aug 26, 11:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca, Wyandot | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Huron, Marion | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 72 min |
| Aug 26, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 92 min |
| Aug 26, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 55 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.