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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 29, 2003Summit County, Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2003, 7:57 PM EDT for Summit County, Wayne 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
Jun 29, 2003, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2003, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Summit County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 2003-06-29Temperature 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 2003-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
1497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 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 292357
SVRCLE
OHC153-169-300045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
757 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 757 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RITTMAN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  WOOSTER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BARBERTON
  DOYLESTOWN
  MOGADORE
  RITTMAN

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.

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 4099 8138 4091 8142 4092 8164 4088 8165
          4087 8177 4098 8179 4098 8168 4106 8167
          4110 8138

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 8:22 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE83 min
Jun 29, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion, Wyandot61 min
Jun 29, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford41 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.