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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 7, 2004Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2004, 2:57 AM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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: May 7, 2004, 2:57 AM EDT (06:57 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2004, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 48 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 6, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1012 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 070657
SVRCLE
OHC095-070745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
257 AM EDT FRI MAY 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 AM EDT

* AT 257 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SYLVANIA...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMBERTVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HOLLAND
  SYLVANIA
  TOLEDO

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING 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 4171 8387 4172 8361 4163 8333 4162 8357
          4157 8362 4154 8371 4160 8387

$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 10:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		83 min
May 6, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 6, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 7, 12:16 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		89 min
May 7, 12:16 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		89 min
May 7, 2:41 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		94 min
May 7, 7:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	53 min
May 7, 7:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	41 min
May 7, 7:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	63 min
May 7, 7:30 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		60 min
May 7, 7:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	64 min
May 7, 8:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	56 min
May 7, 10:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	56 min
May 7, 12:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	64 min
May 7, 12:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Marion	3 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.