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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Cleveland, OH

November 12, 2003Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 12, 2003, 7:23 PM EST for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 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, 7:23 PM EST (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2003, 8:00 PM EST
In force: 37 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), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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
Nov 12, 3:20 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 101 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 303 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 323 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 130023
SVRCLE
OHC075-130100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EST

* AT 723 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF MILLERSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 55
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HOLMESVILLE
  MILLERSBURG
  BERLIN
  WINESBURG
  WALNUT CREEK

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 4063 8200 4066 8184 4066 8165 4050 8166
          4050 8175 4047 8183 4046 8195

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 12, 7:16 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	44 min
Nov 12, 7:36 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CLE		84 min
Nov 12, 7:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage	59 min
Nov 12, 7:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003 Every 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.