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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 2004Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2004, 7:05 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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 9, 2004, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
40 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), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2004-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2004-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 092305
SVRCLE
OHC095-092345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
705 PM EDT SUN MAY 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 705 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF TOLEDO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  OREGON
  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 8366 4172 8347 4170 8345 4170 8336
          4172 8335 4170 8332 4162 8342 4161 8358
          4168 8367

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 8:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE51 min
May 8, 10:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
May 9, 3:38 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE97 min
May 9, 5:20 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE85 min
May 9, 7:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE113 min
May 9, 7:20 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE100 min

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.