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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 2004Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 6:18 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 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 13, 2004, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lucas County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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
Jun 13, 2:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 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.

386 
WUUS51 KCLE 132218
SVRCLE
OHC095-132315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
618 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 618 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITEHOUSE...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES EAST OF NAPOLEON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HOLLAND
  OREGON
  TOLEDO
  WATERVILLE
  WHITEHOUSE

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

FREQUENT INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF
OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE
INDOORS IF POSSIBLE.

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 4167 8369 4171 8351 4169 8333 4163 8328
          4162 8344 4159 8359 4150 8372 4144 8380
          4141 8387 4157 8387

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LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	63 min
Jun 13, 7:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wood	43 min
Jun 13, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca	59 min
Jun 13, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.