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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2003, 6:21 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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
- Apr 20, 2003, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Erie County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1190 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
074 WUUS51 KCLE 202221 SVRCLE OHC043-202315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 620 PM EDT SUN APR 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 620 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANDUSKY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREMONT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SANDUSKY MILAN VERMILION DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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 4145 8286 4130 8265 4163 8187 4176 8186 $$ ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 87 min | |
| Apr 20, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wyandot | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Sandusky | 64 min |
| Apr 20, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 30 min |
| Apr 20, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Apr 20, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Apr 20, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| Apr 20, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min |
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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.