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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 30, 2004Wyandot County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2004, 7:04 PM EDT for Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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 30, 2004, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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
May 30, 4:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 302304
SVRCLE
OHC175-302345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
704 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WYANDOT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 704 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF UPPER SANDUSKY...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF FINDLAY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SYCAMORE
  UPPER SANDUSKY

DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE 
COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING 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 4098 8344 4098 8312 4079 8311 4080 8332
          4082 8350 4093 8348

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	66 min
May 30, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
May 30, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	50 min
May 30, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	61 min
May 30, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	37 min
May 30, 7:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Marion	29 min
May 30, 7:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Crawford	28 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.