Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2003, 7:12 PM EDT for Ashland County, Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ashland County, OH, Richland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
127 WUUS51 KCLE 202312 SVRCLE OHC005-139-210000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 711 PM EDT SUN APR 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 711 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAVANNAH...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF MANSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF MANSFIELD AND ALSO MOVING EAST * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ASHLAND POLK SAVANNAH 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 4095 8264 4102 8217 4082 8213 4078 8261 $$
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, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 54 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, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| Apr 20, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 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.