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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 20, 2003Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2003, 9:24 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 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), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 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.

962 
WUUS51 KCLE 210124
SVRCLE
OHC075-210215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
923 PM EDT SUN APR 20 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 923 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KILLBUCK...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MILLERSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS
  STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH
  AND 1 INCH HAIL.

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

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 4045 8183 4045 8217 4067 8188 4066 8165
          4051 8167

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 8:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	43 min
Apr 20, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	46 min
Apr 20, 10:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Stark	36 min
Apr 20, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	33 min
Apr 20, 10:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	39 min

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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.