Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2003, 3:56 PM EDT for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 26, 2003, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2003, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 261956
SVRCLE
OHC043-093-262045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
356 PM EDT THU JUN 26 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
* UNTIL 445 PM EDT
* AT 356 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VERMILION...OR ABOUT 11
MILES NORTHEAST OF NORWALK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
AMHERST
AVON LAKE
LORAIN
VERMILION
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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 4152 8200 4125 8233 4129 8246 4135 8254
4143 8239 4143 8226 4148 8219
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 26, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 26, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 26, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr |
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.