Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2004, 5:03 PM EDT for Seneca 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
- Apr 17, 2004, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Seneca County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
559 WUUS51 KCLE 172103 SVRCLE OHC147-172200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 503 PM EDT SAT APR 17 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SENECA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 503 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW RIEGEL...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF FOSTORIA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BLOOMVILLE NEW RIEGEL TIFFIN IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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 4124 8336 4101 8340 4102 8286 4125 8288 $$ ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 66 min |
| Apr 17, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 64 min |
| Apr 17, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 67 min |
| Apr 17, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 65 min |
| Apr 17, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 61 min |
| Apr 17, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 66 min |
| Apr 17, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 54 min |
| Apr 17, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 66 min |
| Apr 17, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 42 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.