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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 7, 2004Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2004, 7:27 AM EDT for Lorain 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
May 7, 2004, 7:27 AM EDT (11:27 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2004, 8:30 AM EDT
In force
63 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), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:27 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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 00:00Z on 2004-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 359 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2004-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 071127
SVRCLE
OHC093-071230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 AM EDT

* AT 723 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF WELLINGTON...OR ABOUT 6
  MILES EAST OF NORWALK...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WELLINGTON
  LAGRANGE
  GRAFTON

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 4131 8202 4128 8194 4120 8198 4120 8207
          4114 8207 4112 8223 4114 8232 4134 8234

$$

MRD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 10:52 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE83 min
May 6, 10:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
May 6, 10:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
May 7, 12:16 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE89 min
May 7, 12:16 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE89 min
May 7, 2:41 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE94 min
May 7, 2:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas48 min
May 7, 7:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa53 min
May 7, 7:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron41 min
May 7, 7:30 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE60 min
May 7, 7:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina64 min
May 7, 8:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot56 min
May 7, 10:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox56 min
May 7, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion64 min
May 7, 12:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion3 hr

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.