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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Cleveland, OH

November 12, 2003Mahoning County, Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 12, 2003, 7:46 PM EST for Mahoning County, Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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, 7:46 PM EST (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2003, 8:45 PM EST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mahoning County, OH, Portage County, OH

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, 4:40 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Nov 12, 7:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 130046
SVRCLE
OHC099-133-130145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM EST

* AT 746 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEBRING...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES SOUTH OF RAVENNA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BOARDMAN
  CAMPBELL
  CANFIELD
  SEBRING
  YOUNGSTOWN

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

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 4090 8080 4093 8085 4090 8090 4090 8108
          4099 8108 4099 8120 4107 8121 4112 8052
          4090 8053

$$

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, 7:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	37 min
Nov 12, 7:36 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CLE		84 min
Nov 12, 7:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	64 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.