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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 19, 2004Cuyahoga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2004, 7:04 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lake 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
Apr 19, 2004, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2004-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2004-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 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.

274 
WUUS51 KCLE 192304
SVRCLE
OHC035-085-192345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
704 PM EDT MON APR 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 704 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF EUCLID...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CLEVELAND HEIGHTS
  EASTLAKE
  EUCLID
  MADISON
  MENTOR
  PAINESVILLE
  PERRY
  WILLOUGHBY

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 4171 8103 4171 8110 4164 8110 4164 8129
          4157 8129 4157 8137 4146 8142 4138 8159
          4155 8162 4171 8138 4185 8101

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE63 min
Apr 19, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE63 min
Apr 19, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga46 min
Apr 19, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2004Every 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.