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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2003, 7:42 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Trumbull County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 012342 SVRCLE OHC155-020030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 742 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 742 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF NORTH BLOOMFIELD...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF WARREN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BRISTOLVILLE NORTH BLOOMFIELD KINSMAN 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 4135 8052 4135 8088 4149 8088 4149 8052 $$
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, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 55 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.