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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 25, 2005Knox County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2005, 2:52 PM EDT for Knox County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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: Jul 25, 2005, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2005, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Knox County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 25, 10:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 2602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 251852
SVRCLE
OHC083-251930-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0162.050725T1852Z-050725T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
252 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GAMBIER...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GAMBIER...
  HOWARD...

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 4053 8247 4027 8271 4013 8190 4037 8181

$$

LAPLANTE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 251927
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
327 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

OHC083-251937-
/O.EXP.KCLE.SV.W.0162.000000T0000Z-050725T1930Z/
KNOX OH-
327 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KNOX COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 330
PM EDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA 
AND WEAKENED.  THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. 

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.

LAT...LON 4053 8247 4027 8271 4013 8190 4037 8181

$$

LEINS

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
150 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

.AVIATION(18Z-18Z)...
WK FRONTAL BOUNDARY NOW OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO HAS
COMBINED WITH SOME INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE TO PRODUCE A LINE
OF DAMAGING TSTMS.  THESE STORMS WILL MOST LIKELY GO SOUTH OF
CLEVELAND BUT PROBABLY HIT MFD. EXPECT MORE TSTMS TO BETTER
ORGANIZE LATER TNGT AND PUSH EASTWARD INTO WESTERN OHIO AND THEN TO
THE REMAINING SECTIONS. THE TAFS SHOULD STAY MOSTLY MVFR OR SLIGHTLY
BETTER BUT WE WILL HAVE SOME LOCAL IFR CONDS. ON TUESDAY LOOK FOR
GOOD CHC OF MORE SVR WX.

&&

.SHORT TERM UPDATE (THIS AFTERNOON)
ALREADY PUT ZONES OUT FOR THIS AFTERNOON TO INCLUDE SEVERE TSTM
WATCH 677 FOR WESTERN PORTION OF CWA FROM LORIAN ASHLAND KNOX
COUNTIES WEST TO CWA BOARDER. INCREASED POPS FOR THE AFTN ACROSS THE
WESTERN AREAS INCLUDED IN WATCH AND HIGHLIGHTED SVR POTENTIAL FOR
STRONG WINDS POSSIBLE WITH STORMS. KEPT POPS IN EASTERN AREAS AROUND
50 PERCENT THROUGH REMAINDER OF AFTERNOON. ALSO STRESSED IN ZONES
WAS THE HUMID CONDITIONS. DEWPOINTS ARE IN THE 75 TO 80 DEGRESS
RANGE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NW PA. TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN SLOW TO
RISE THIS MORNING WITH SOME AREAS UNDER SCT-BKN CLDS BUT MAINTAINED
AFTERNOON FORECAST OF HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S FOR MOST EXCEPT NW PA.

&&

.SHORT TERM UPDATE...
BOUNDARY AND ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND OUT OF
THE AREA OVER NEXT COUPLE HOURS.  MORE CONVECTION IS MOVING EAST
ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN AND THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE
AREA LATER THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON SO WILL JUST KEEP A BLANKET
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY.

ZONES WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

&&

.PREVIOUS SHORT TERM UPDATE...
THUNDERSTORMS QUICKLY DEVELOPED OVER THE WESTERN BASIN OF LAKE ERIE
THIS MORNING AFTER INITIAL ZONE ISSUANCE.  VIRTUALLY INVISIBLE
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY APPEARS TO BE TRIGGERING NEW ACTIVITY AND WILL MOVE
THROUGH THE AREA EARLY THIS MORNING.  BOUNDARY EVIDENT IN THE WIND
SHIFT AND RAPID CHANGE IN PRESSURE RISE FALL COUPLET MOVING THROUGH
MICHIGAN AT THIS TIME.

ZONES ALREADY UPDATED.

&&

.PREVIOUS SHORT TERM...
.SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH THURS)...
TROUGH SWINGING THROUGH THE AREA THIS MORNING WHILE NEWLY BORN MCS
MOVES SOUTH SOUTHEAST AWAY FROM THE AREA ALONG THE INSTABLITY AXIS.
DRY AIR MASS STARTS TO WORK INTO THE AREA THIS MORNING FROM THE WEST
FOLLOWED BY MORE MOISTURE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  I AM
GOING TO INCLUDE A MENTION OF A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS
AFTERNOON IN THE WEST EVEN THOUGH GUIDANCE POPS ARE VERY LOW.
REASONING IS SERIES OF WEAK SHORTWAVES MOVING EAST ACROSS THE AREA
AND HEAT INDUCED INSTABILITY COULD PRODUCE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS.
MOST AREAS SHOULD REMAIN DRY THROUGH THE DAY.

THEN...FOR TONIGHT LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO WISCONSIN BY 06Z AND
THEN TO LAKE MICHIGAN BY 12Z. REINFORCING WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTHEAST
THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT.  THIS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR YET EVEN
ANOTHER HOT DAY ON TUESDAY...QUITE POSSIBLY WARMER THAN TODAY IF
PRECIPITATION AND CLOUDS HOLD OFF UNTIL EVENING.  TRAILING COLD FRONT
WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA BY EVENING SO WILL GO WITH
LIKELY POPS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE
WEATHER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE COLD FRONT TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS
INSTABILITY ONCE AGAIN IS ON THE INCREASE.

COLD FRONT WILL USHER IN COOLER AND DRIER AIR FOR TUESDAY NIGHT INTO
WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD EAST INTO THE FORECAST AREA AND
DOMINATE THROUGH THURSDAY.

I LEANED MORE TOWARD THE MET TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINT GUIDANCE
THROUGH THE PERIOD.
&&

.LONG TERM (THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)...
GFS KP HIGH PRES AND GNRLY DRY STBL AMS IN PLACE THRU SAT SO
CLR/PC/SUNNY ALL WORK HERE. TEMPS SHOULD BE CLOSE TO NORMAL WITH
LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S AND HIGHS UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S THURSDAY
AND FRIDSAY AND LOW TO MID 80S SAT AND SUN.

&&

.CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.OH...NONE.
.PA...NONE.

SHORT TERM (AFTN) UPDATE...ABE
PREV. SHORT TERM...LOMBARDY
LONG TERM...TK
AVIATION...BC

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 7:01 AM EDT, 7 hours 51 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
701 AM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-261058-
ASHLAND OH-ASHTABULA INLAND OH-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE OH-CRAWFORD PA-
CRAWFORD OH-CUYAHOGA OH-ERIE OH-GEAUGA OH-HANCOCK OH-HOLMES OH-
HURON OH-KNOX OH-LAKE OH-LORAIN OH-LUCAS OH-MAHONING OH-MARION OH-
MEDINA OH-MORROW OH-NORTHERN ERIE PA-OTTAWA OH-PORTAGE OH-
RICHLAND OH-SANDUSKY OH-SENECA OH-SOUTHERN ERIE PA-STARK OH-
SUMMIT OH-TRUMBULL OH-WAYNE OH-WOOD OH-WYANDOT OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AKRON...ASHLAND...ASHTABULA...
BOWLING GREEN...BUCYRUS...CANTON...CHARDON...CLEVELAND...ELYRIA...
ERIE...FINDLAY...FOSTORIA...FREMONT...JEFFERSON...LORAIN...
MANSFIELD...MARION...MEADVILLE...MEDINA...MILLERSBURG...
MOUNT GILEAD...MOUNT VERNON...NORWALK...PAINESVILLE...PORT CLINTON...
RAVENNA...SANDUSKY...TIFFIN...TOLEDO...UPPER SANDUSKY...WARREN...
WOOSTER AND YOUNGSTOWN
701 AM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A
PORTION OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY.

THE WARM AND TROPICAL AIR MASS WILL BECOME MORE UNSTABLE THROUGH THE
DAY CAUSING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY AS A
COLD FRONT MOVES EAST ACROSS THE AREA.  OTHERWISE...HIGH PRESSURE
WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK AND NO
SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.

LOMBARDY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
115 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0100 PM     TSTM WND GST     FINDLAY                 41.04N 83.64W
07/25/2005  60 MPH           HANCOCK            OH   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL TELEPHONE POLES AND LIMBS DOWN

&&

BMA

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
138 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0120 PM     HAIL             BOWLING GREEN           41.38N 83.65W
07/25/2005  0.75 INCH        WOOD               OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            AT I-75 AND US 6

&&

BMA

Local storm report, Jul 25, 2:38 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
238 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 S CLYDE               41.55N 83.36W
07/25/2005                   OTTAWA             OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            POWER LINES AND TREES DOWN AT COUNTY ROAD 175 AND STATE
            ROUTE 101.

0140 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CAREY                   40.95N 83.38W
07/25/2005                   WYANDOT            OH   AMATEUR RADIO

            LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN. POWER LINES DOWN 5 MI E IN
            MCCUTCHENVILLE.

0205 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 S BETTSVILLE          41.23N 83.23W
07/25/2005                   SENECA             OH   AMATEUR RADIO

            2 FOOT DIAMETER LIVE TREE DOWN ALONG CR 31

0219 PM     TSTM WND GST     LEXINGTON               40.68N 82.59W
07/25/2005  60 MPH           RICHLAND           OH   AMATEUR RADIO

            SEVERAL HIGH GUSTS OF WIND, BRANCHES DOWN. BRANCH SIZE
            UNKNOWN.

&&

BMA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 10:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		119 min
Jul 25, 12:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	63 min
Jul 25, 12:43 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 25, 5:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		84 min
Jul 25, 12:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	53 min
Jul 25, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca, Wyandot	50 min
Jul 25, 1:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	53 min
Jul 25, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	56 min
Jul 25, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	27 min
Jul 25, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Richland	67 min
Jul 25, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	60 min
Jul 25, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	25 min
Jul 25, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	51 min
Jul 25, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	46 min
Jul 25, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	50 min

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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.