Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2003, 9:11 PM EST for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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, 9:11 PM EST (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2003, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 628 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 050211 SVRCLE OHC033-050245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 911 PM EST FRI APR 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 945 PM EST * AT 911 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF BUCYRUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BUCYRUS CRESTLINE 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 4084 8308 4098 8273 4078 8273 4070 8299 $$
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, 9:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 24 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 |
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.