Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2004, 5:38 PM EDT for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 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, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.
153 WUUS51 KCLE 172138 SVRCLE OHC043-077-172245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 538 PM EDT SAT APR 17 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... HURON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 538 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MILAN...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF NORWALK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MILAN NORWALK WAKEMAN 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 4139 8271 4122 8273 4113 8233 4136 8234 $$ MA
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, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 57 min |
| Apr 17, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 64 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.