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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 29, 2003Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2003, 8:51 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 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, 8:51 PM EDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2003, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2003-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2003-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 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.

726 
WUUS51 KCLE 300051
SVRCLE
OHC093-300130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 850 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELYRIA....MOVING EAST AT 
35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ELYRIA
  GRAFTON
  NORTH RIDGEVILLE

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.

LAT...LON 4144 8197 4135 8197 4135 8188 4123 8198
          4121 8232 4139 8233

$$

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.