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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Cleveland, OH

November 12, 2003Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 12, 2003, 4:40 PM EST for Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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: Nov 12, 2003, 4:40 PM EST (21:40 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2003, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hancock County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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
Nov 12, 1:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Nov 12, 4:40 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 122140
SVRCLE
OHC063-173-122245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
440 PM EST WED NOV 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...

* UNTIL 545 PM EST

* AT 440 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF MCCOMB...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  NORTH OF OTTAWA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  MCCOMB
  NORTH BALTIMORE
  VAN BUREN

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

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 8342 4121 8342 4114 8348 4100 8386
          4128 8388

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 12, 5:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca	45 min
Nov 12, 5:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	52 min
Nov 12, 5:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Marion	67 min
Nov 12, 5:36 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
Nov 12, 5:36 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
Nov 12, 5:36 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
Nov 12, 5:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	65 min
Nov 12, 5:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow, Richland	56 min
Nov 12, 6:00 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Crawford, Morrow	30 min
Nov 12, 6:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Richland	36 min
Nov 12, 6:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	25 min
Nov 12, 6:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	51 min
Nov 12, 6:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wayne	45 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.