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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2003, 6:52 PM EDT for Marion County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 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, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marion County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
540
WUUS51 KCLE 012252
SVRCLE
OHC101-012345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
653 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MARION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
* AT 653 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF CALEDONIA...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
NORTH OF MARION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CALEDONIA
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING 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 4070 8320 4070 8286 4065 8286 4065 8297
4056 8310
$$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, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 52 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, 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.