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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 2004Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 6:42 PM EDT for Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 63 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), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.

789 
WUUS51 KCLE 132242
SVRCLE
OHC063-173-132345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
641 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 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 745 PM EDT

* AT 641 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 19 MILES WEST OF
  WESTON TO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTON TO 17 MILES WEST OF MCCOMB
  TO 22 MILES WEST OF MCCOMB...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF NAPOLEON TO 11 MILES SOUTH OF NAPOLEON TO 11 MILES
  NORTH OF OTTAWA TO 8 MILES WEST OF OTTAWA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ARCADIA
  ARLINGTON
  BOWLING GREEN
  FINDLAY
  MCCOMB
  NORTH BALTIMORE
  PERRYSBURG
  RAWSON
  VAN BUREN
  VANLUE
  WESTON

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

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMSS PATH...TAKE COVER 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 4140 8387 4152 8369 4155 8346 4088 8344
          4087 8387

$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	57 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

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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.