Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2003, 9:06 PM EST for Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 24 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
- Apr 4, 2003, 9:06 PM EST (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2003, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 404 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 386 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
250
WUUS51 KCLE 050206
SVRCLE
OHC143-050230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
905 PM EST FRI APR 4 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...
* UNTIL 930 PM EST
* AT 905 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FREMONT...OR ABOUT 9
MILES NORTHEAST OF FOSTORIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CLYDE
FREMONT
GREEN SPRINGS
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 4130 8336 4145 8306 4142 8285 4131 8285
4126 8298
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 8:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Wyandot | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 9:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 9:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 9:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 9:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 9:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Sandusky | 41 min |
| Apr 4, 9:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 9:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 10:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 11:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Summit | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 12:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 40 min |
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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.