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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 17, 2004Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2004, 7:26 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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 17, 2004, 7:26 PM EDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2004, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 1052 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 172326
SVRCLE
OHC093-180030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
725 PM EDT THU JUN 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 719 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 58 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF GRAFTON...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

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

LAT...LON 4134 8197 4134 8187 4133 8187 4128 8188
      4127 8198 4120 8198 4120 8207 4118 8208
      4117 8207 4117 8218 4118 8225 4136 8225
      4136 8225 4137 8198

$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 11:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes	4 hr
Jun 16, 11:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	4 hr
Jun 17, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		118 min
Jun 17, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	58 min
Jun 17, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Wood	61 min
Jun 17, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
Jun 17, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
Jun 17, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	62 min
Jun 17, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	57 min
Jun 17, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	66 min
Jun 17, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jun 17, 7:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes	4 hr

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.