Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2004, 5:51 PM EDT for Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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
- May 23, 2004, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hancock County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KCLE 232151
SVRCLE
OHC063-173-232245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
550 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...
WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF WESTON TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAWSON...OR ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NAPOLEON TO 6 MILES NORTH OF
LIMA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ARCADIA
ARLINGTON
BOWLING GREEN
FINDLAY
MCCOMB
NORTH BALTIMORE
RAWSON
VAN BUREN
VANLUE
WESTON
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.
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 4136 8386 4140 8342 4118 8344 4082 8352
4081 8387
$$What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 23, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
300 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004
.DISCUSSION...
JUST SCT SHRS/TSTM ATTM OVER THE CWA. MOST UNTABLE AIR THIS AFTN
OVER ERN CWA. LOW PRES OVR UPR MID WEST WITH TRAILING CDFNT WL MOV
NE OVRNGT BRINGING CDFNT THRU CWA. WRMFNT EXTD E FROM LOW EXTDS INTO
WRN NY MAY ACTUALLY BACK LTL INTO NW PA. WITH FNT TO MOVE THRU AND
AMNT INSTAB WL CONT WITH LKLY POPS TNGT. FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR E
1/2 TNGT WL KEEP IT JUST IN THIS AREA FOR NOW. FFG IN THIS AREA MUCH
LWR THEN W FROM RAINS OVER THE PAST SVRL DAYS WITH NW PA BEING
EXTRMLY LOW. CHC LNGRNG SHWRS/TSMS E MON MRNG. THEN SHORT DRY PD
REST OF MON AND MON NGT THOUGH BRNGG CHC TO W AGAIN MON NGT. THEN
ANOTHER FNTL SYSTEMS TUE INTO WED.
&&
.CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...FLOOD WATCH TDA AND TGNT OHZ010>014-020>023-032-033-089
TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 5PM EDT OHZ003-006>009-017>019
PA...FLOOD WATCH TDA AND TGNT PAZ001-003.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 5:50 AM EDT, 12 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 550 AM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-231144- ASHLAND OH-ASHTABULA INLAND OH-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE OH-CRAWFORD PA- CRAWFORD OH-CUYAHOGA OH-ERIE OH-GEAUGA OH-HANCOCK OH-HOLMES OH- HURON OH-KNOX OH-LAKE OH-LORAIN OH-LUCAS OH-MAHONING OH-MARION OH- MEDINA OH-MORROW OH-NORTHERN ERIE PA-OTTAWA OH-PORTAGE OH- RICHLAND OH-SANDUSKY OH-SENECA OH-SOUTHERN ERIE PA-STARK OH- SUMMIT OH-TRUMBULL OH-WAYNE OH-WOOD OH-WYANDOT OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AKRON...ASHLAND...ASHTABULA... BOWLING GREEN...BUCYRUS...CANTON...CHARDON...CLEVELAND...ELYRIA... ERIE...FINDLAY...FOSTORIA...FREMONT...JEFFERSON...LORAIN... MANSFIELD...MARION...MEADVILLE...MEDINA...MILLERSBURG... MOUNT GILEAD...MOUNT VERNON...NORWALK...PAINESVILLE...PORT CLINTON... RAVENNA...SANDUSKY...TIFFIN...TOLEDO...UPPER SANDUSKY...WARREN... WOOSTER AND YOUNGSTOWN 550 AM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTION OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA TODAY AND TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINS...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 10:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 3 hr | |
| May 22, 10:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 3 hr | |
| May 22, 10:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 3 hr | |
| May 22, 11:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 44 min |
| May 22, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 49 min |
| May 23, 12:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 4 hr |
| May 23, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 62 min |
| May 23, 7:05 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 min | |
| May 23, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 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.