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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2003, 5:33 AM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 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, 5:33 AM EDT (09:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2003, 6:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Holmes County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 270933 SVRCLE OHC075-271015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 532 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 615 AM EDT * AT 532 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF MILLERSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... KILLBUCK MILLERSBURG BERLIN WALNUT CREEK LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING 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 4069 8210 4051 8214 4035 8127 4059 8121 $$
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, 1:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 53 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, 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.