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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 7:27 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 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), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KCLE 262327
SVRCLE
OHC005-270030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
726 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 726 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAVANNAH...OR ABOUT 7
MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ASHLAND
HAYESVILLE
LOUDONVILLE
POLK
SAVANNAH
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 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 4102 8243 4098 8213 4068 8213 4068 8220
4061 8226 4067 8232 4073 8232 4073 8238
4081 8240
$$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, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Lucas, Wood | 76 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, 7:30 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.