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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 6, 2003Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2003, 1:08 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Geauga 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 6, 2003, 1:08 AM EDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2003, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2003-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 64 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2003-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 217 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
345 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.

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 060508
SVRCLE
OHC035-055-060600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
108 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  GEAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT

* AT 108 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES EAST OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BURTON
  CHARDON
  CHESTERLAND
  MIDDLEFIELD
  SOUTH RUSSELL



HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN
HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.


LAT...LON 4163 8148 4156 8147 4156 8129 4161 8128
          4158 8100 4136 8101 4146 8158 4159 8156

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 11:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
May 5, 11:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
May 5, 11:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
May 6, 2:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.