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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 27, 2003Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2003, 1:52 AM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 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 27, 2003, 1:52 AM EDT (05:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2003, 2:45 AM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Portage County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 270552
SVRCLE
OHC133-270645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
152 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 AM EDT

* AT 152 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  EAST OF AKRON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  KENT
  RAVENNA

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN
HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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 4108 8100 4099 8101 4099 8137 4119 8137
          4112 8100

$$

LOMBARDY

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 26, 9:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 9:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
920 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

UPDATING TO DROP SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND TO REDUCE
PRECIPITATION CHANCES OVER THE FORECAST AREA.  FRONT IS STILL TO THE
NORTH OF THE AREA AND THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT A FEW SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP WITH THE FRONT.

MCS DID A CLEAN SWEEP OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND HELPED TO STABILIZE THE
AIR MASS. HOWEVER...WEST TO SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL BRING MORE UNSTABLE
AIR BACK INTO THE AREA AND THIS SHOULD HELP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ACTIVITY WITH THE FRONT.

ZONES WILL BE OUT IN A FEW MINUTES.

CLE...
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.

LOMBARDY

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 6:48 AM EDT, 19 hours 4 minutes before

OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-261245-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
648 AM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS  TODAY AND
TONIGHT.

.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 26, 9:01 PM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
901 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

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

0800 PM    COUNTYWIDE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03   ASHLAND                        SEVERAL TREES DOWN

BM

Local storm report, Aug 26, 9:16 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
916 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

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

0810 PM    MT VERNON                 OH   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/26/03   KNOX                           MEASURED

0810 PM    MT VERNON                 OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03   KNOX                           SHINGLES OFF ROOF AND STOP
                                          LIGHTS DOWN

BM

Special weather statement, Aug 26, 9:28 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

OHZ003-006>010-017>022-027>033-036>038-047-270230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
928 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 895 HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST OF THE REGION THIS
EVENING. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LOMBARDY

Local storm report, Aug 26, 10:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
1019 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

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

0805 PM    COUNTYWIDE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03   KNOX                           OVER 100 TREES KNOCKED
                                          DOWN ACROSS COUNTY AND SOME
                                          MAJOR HIGHWAYS BLOCKED.

0815 PM    STILLWELL                 OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03   HOLMES                         ONE TREE DOWN.

0815 PM    KILLBUCK                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03   HOLMES                         ONE TREE DOWN.

FMK

Special weather statement, Aug 26, 11:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

PAZ001>003-270415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1110 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH MUCH OF EXTREME NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA...ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 2 AM.

AT 1110 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING
LAKE ERIE NORTH OF ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
REACH THE ERIE COUNTY SHORELINE AROUND MIDNIGHT AND CONTINUE MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD HAVE HEAVY
RAINFALL...HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. SOME PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADS MAY OCCUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR WARNINGS.

KIELTYKA

Local storm report, Aug 27, 12:12 AM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
1212 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

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

1140 PM    AVON LAKE                 OH   .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03   LORAIN

FMK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	65 min
Aug 26, 11:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 26, 11:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	51 min
Aug 27, 12:07 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Aug 27, 12:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	67 min
Aug 27, 1:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	57 min
Aug 27, 1:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Summit	61 min
Aug 27, 2:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Summit	4 hr
Aug 27, 2:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	53 min
Aug 27, 2:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	52 min
Aug 27, 2:57 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage	4 hr
Aug 27, 4:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Wayne	46 min
Aug 27, 5:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	44 min
Aug 27, 5:30 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 27, 5:30 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 27, 5:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	42 min
Aug 27, 8:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	36 min
Aug 27, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	50 min
Aug 27, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	62 min
Aug 27, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	30 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.