Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2004, 8:16 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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 17, 2004, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Holmes County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KCLE 180016
SVRCLE
OHC075-180115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
815 PM EDT MON MAY 17 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
* UNTIL 915 PM EDT
* AT 816 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BERLIN...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF
MILLERSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
HOLMESVILLE
BERLIN
WINESBURG
WALNUT CREEK
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR ARE
EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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 4060 8195 4066 8187 4066 8165 4054 8166
4047 8181
$$
MRDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 67 min |
| May 17, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 62 min |
| May 17, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 28 min |
| May 18, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 90 min | |
| May 18, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 90 min | |
| May 18, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 60 min |
| May 18, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 55 min |
| May 18, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 65 min |
| May 18, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 56 min |
| May 18, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 52 min |
| May 18, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 47 min |
| May 18, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 50 min |
| May 18, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 43 min |
| May 18, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 57 min |
| May 18, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 38 min |
| May 18, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Marion | 60 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.