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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 10, 2004Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2004, 6:54 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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 10, 2004, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
51 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), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 12:00Z on 2004-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2004-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 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
67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1301 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 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.

447 
WUUS51 KCLE 102254
SVRCLE
OHC093-102345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
654 PM EDT MON MAY 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 654 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GRAFTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  ELYRIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  GRAFTON
  NORTH RIDGEVILLE

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 4134 8198 4134 8187 4128 8188 4128 8198
          4120 8198 4118 8207 4126 8220 4146 8197

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 7:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit39 min
May 10, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford55 min
May 10, 6:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE82 min
May 10, 6:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE82 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.