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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 17, 2004Mahoning County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2004, 8:43 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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, 8:43 PM EDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2004, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mahoning County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 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

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The text

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

735 
WUUS51 KCLE 180043
SVRCLE
OHC099-180145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
842 PM EDT MON MAY 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 842 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF SEBRING...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF CANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BOARDMAN
  CANFIELD
  SEBRING

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR 
HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN STARK COUNTY 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 4090 8091 4090 8106 4098 8108 4098 8100
          4110 8099 4113 8093 4113 8052 4107 8053

$$

MRD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	59 min
May 17, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	67 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

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.