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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 18, 2004Erie County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2004, 3:20 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 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 18, 2004, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Erie County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 18, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -19 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.

713 
WUUS51 KCLE 181920
SVRCLE
OHC043-182015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
320 PM EDT TUE MAY 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CASTALIA...OR ABOUT 3
  MILES SOUTH OF PORT CLINTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CASTALIA
  MILAN
  SANDUSKY

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58 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 4148 8282 4146 8265 4139 8252 4139 8244
          4143 8237 4129 8235 4129 8270 4134 8284
          4142 8284 4144 8288

$$

RL

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, 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, 3:25 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.