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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 15, 2003Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2003, 7:39 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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 15, 2003, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 12:00Z on 2003-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2003-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 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 152339
SVRCLE
OHC151-160030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
740 PM EDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 740 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF CANTON...MOVING NORTH AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CANTON
  HARTVILLE
  LOUISVILLE
  NORTH CANTON

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 4097 8121 4073 8128 4074 8151 4091 8149
          4091 8141 4098 8140

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Wayne62 min
May 15, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Trumbull41 min
May 15, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes48 min
May 15, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark42 min
May 15, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit39 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.