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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 18, 2004Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2004, 3:49 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 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, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2004, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

078 
WUUS51 KCLE 181949
SVRCLE
OHC035-093-103-182045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 349 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF GRAFTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  NORTH OF MEDINA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BRUNSWICK
  GRAFTON
  NORTH ROYALTON
  STRONGSVILLE

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 4133 8161 4128 8156 4128 8167 4112 8168
          4121 8205 4138 8200

$$

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, 3:20 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, 3:53 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.