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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 17, 2004Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2004, 5:55 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Portage County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 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.

185 
WUUS51 KCLE 172155
SVRCLE
OHC133-172300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
555 PM EDT SAT APR 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF AKRON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  GARRETTSVILLE
  KENT
  MANTUA
  RAVENNA
  STREETSBORO

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 4131 8137 4100 8137 4099 8101 4134 8102

$$

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, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	67 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

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.