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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 1, 2003Richland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2003, 5:08 PM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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: May 1, 2003, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Richland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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
May 1, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 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.

709 
WUUS51 KCLE 012108
SVRCLE
OHC139-012200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
508 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTY...OR ABOUT
  13 MILES NORTH OF MANSFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...

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

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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 4098 8270 4087 8256 4099 8241

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	43 min
May 1, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	67 min
May 1, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	56 min
May 1, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	53 min
May 1, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	60 min
May 1, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	40 min
May 1, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	60 min
May 1, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	48 min
May 1, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	53 min
May 1, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	55 min
May 1, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	48 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.