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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2003, 7:05 PM EDT for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 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, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
295 WUUS51 KCLE 012305 SVRCLE OHC033-020000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 705 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 705 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF BUCYRUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BUCYRUS CRESTLINE GALION 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 4078 8310 4098 8273 4076 8273 4070 8303 $$
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, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 53 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.