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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2005, 6:15 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 20 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
- Aug 13, 2005, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2005, 6:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KCLE 132215
SVRCLE
OHC169-132315-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0217.050813T2215Z-050813T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
615 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEST SALEM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE CRESTON AND CONGRESS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 4098 8188 4098 8187 4094 8186 4089 8182
4086 8198 4085 8204 4085 8207 4082 8212
4098 8212
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KCLE 132235
SVSCLE
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
635 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005
OHC169-132245-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0217.000000T0000Z-050813T2315Z/
WAYNE OH-
635 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WAYNE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.
LAT...LON 4098 8188 4098 8187 4094 8186 4089 8182
4086 8198 4085 8204 4085 8207 4082 8212
4098 8212
$$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 Aug 13, 2:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 225 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005 .SHORT TERM (TODAY THRU MONDAY)... KIND OF A TOUGH FCST TDA WITH MODELS AGN HAVING DIFFS IN THE SHORT TERM. FIRST THOUGHT WAS TO FOLLOW THE NAM SOL OF A FASTER FRONTAL MOVEMENT. THINKING WAS THAT CONVECTION WOULD FIRE NXT FEW HRS OVER SRN IN/ERN IL WHERE BEST DEWPOINT AND INSTABILITY IS OCCURING. WAS THEN EXPECTING THIS PRECIP TO MOVE ENE ACRS FA AND WAS HOPING FRONT WOULD SAG S ACRS AREA LATER TGNT IN WAKE OF THIS PRECIP. HOWEVER CONSENSUS FROM NEIGHBORING OFFICES IS TO FOLLOW SLOWER GFS WHICH DVELPS A TRIPLE POINT OVR NW OH TGNT AND THUS HAS BEST PRECIP CHCS THAT AREA. THUS WL FOLLOW KIND OF A GENERIC COMPROMISE SOL THIS FCST. ALL AREAS WL CONT TO SEE LIKELY POPS TGNT AND SUN. PRECIP WL LIKELY BE FAIRLY SCT AT FIRST BUT DO EXPCT IT TO FILL IN SUM LATER TGNT. BNDRY SHOULD FINALLY MAKE IT S OF FA TMRW NGT. COULD BE SUM RESIDUAL SHRA BEHIND FNT SUN EVE AND WL HANG ON TO CHC WORDG TMRW EVE. INSTABILITY DOES NOT APPR TO BE ALL THAT GREAT TDA AS 7H TEMPS PROGGED TO BE ARND 9 DEG AT 18Z GIVING NOMINAL MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES. LITTLE BIT MORE UNSTABLE FURTHER DOWN SOUNDINGS BUT HAVE TO GET TO SRN 1/3 OF FA BEFORE CAPES GET TO 1000 J/KG. THUS NOT REALLY EXPECTING MUCH IF ANY SVR WX THIS AFT AND EVE. BEST INSTABILTY RIGHT NOW OVER THE ERN 1/3 OF AREA AND HAVE SEEN SUM NEW DEVLOPMENT THIS AREA PAST FEW VOLUME SCANS. DRY WX EXPCTED MON AND MON NIGHT AS SFC HI BLDS IN. WL SEE DRIER NELY FLOW FOR BEGINNING OF WORKWEEK AND DWPTS SHOULD FINALLY DROP OFF. GUID TEMPS IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH ABUNDANT CLOUDINESS AND WL BE FOLLOWED FAIRLY CLOSELY TDA. && .LONG TERM (TUE THRU SAT)... LOOKS LIKE RETURN TO MORE NORMAL LIKE TEMPS IN STORE FOR FA AS PATTERN SET TO BECOME ZONAL DURG LONG TERM. WESTERLIES WL ZET UP JUST N OF AREAS SO PATTERN SOULD BE PROGRESSIVE. ALTHO IT APPRS THERE WL BE A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES PASSING THRU THE RGN DURG PD...SFC HI RMNS ENTRENCHED OVER LERI THROUGH ERLY THU. GIVEN NE TO ELY FLOW ASSOC WITH THIS FEATURE THINK PRECIP WL BE HARD TO COME BY AS FRONTAL BNDRY SHOULD RMN S OF THE AREA. CHCS FOR PRECIP WL INCR FOR THE END OF THE WORKWEEK AS LOW PRES WL DVLP OVER THE LWR LAKES AND DRAG A CDFNT ACRS FA ON FRI. HIGH PRES WL AGAIN BLD OVER AREA FM THE NW NEXT SAT. AS FAR AS TEMPS GO...HIGHS WL BE A DEG OR TWO ABV OR BLO FOR MOST OF THE LONG RANGE PD. WARMEST DAY OF THE WEEK WL BE FRI AS SWLY FLOW AHD OF CDFNT COULD PUSH TEMPS INTO THE MID 80S. ALL IN ALL CONFIDENCE FAIRLY GOOD TDA AS MODELS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT IN TRENDING TO THE MORE PROGRESSIVE PATTERN. AS USUAL SUM SLIGHT TIMING DIFFS EXIST BUT THESE WL BE RESOLVED AS TIME GOES ON. && .AVIATION (18Z-18Z)... CDFNT ACROSS EXTREME NRN OH AND NW PA WILL SAG S. IT WILL PROBABLY WAVER. SOME MODEL QUESTIONS AS TO WHETHER IT WILL CONTINUE TO SAG S OR A WAVE WILL DEVELOP ALONG IT FOR LATER TONIGHT...GFS HAS THIS FEATURE. IN THE SHORT TERM ONE AREA OF INSTABILITY IS OVER E CENTRAL FORECAST AREA MOVING E AND ANOTHER OVER CENTRAL INDIANA. TSTMS SHOULD DEVELOP IN THAT AREA THIS AFTN AND TRACK ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FORECAST AREA...MFD...CAK AND YNG THIS EVE. SATELLITE SHOWS A S/WV IOWA TO OK WHICH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION LATE TONIGHT AND WITH THE MOISTURE SOME RAIN...MAINLY RAIN AS PER AMS BECOMING MORE STABLE. MVFR CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT ESPECIALLY NEAR THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .OH...NONE. .PA...NONE. SHORT TERM...KUBINA LONG TERM...KUBINA AVIATION...KIELTYKA
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 13, 4:59 AM EDT, 13 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 459 AM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-140858- 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 459 AM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY BUT ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT LIKELY. HOWEVER...SOME STORMS WILL BE STRONG AND ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON SUNDAY. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED BUT ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS MAY OCCUR. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY TODAY OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 420 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005 OHZ003-006>011-017>020-027>031-036>038-047-140200- ASHLAND OH-CRAWFORD OH-CUYAHOGA OH-ERIE OH-HANCOCK OH-HOLMES OH- HURON OH-KNOX OH-LORAIN OH-LUCAS OH-MARION OH-MEDINA OH-MORROW OH- OTTAWA OH-RICHLAND OH-SANDUSKY OH-SENECA OH-WAYNE OH-WOOD OH- WYANDOT OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASHLAND...BOWLING GREEN...BUCYRUS... CLEVELAND...ELYRIA...FINDLAY...FOSTORIA...FREMONT...LORAIN... MANSFIELD...MARION...MEDINA...MILLERSBURG...MOUNT GILEAD... MOUNT VERNON...NORWALK...PORT CLINTON...SANDUSKY...TIFFIN...TOLEDO... UPPER SANDUSKY AND WOOSTER 420 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 718 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT... THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING OHIO COUNTIES: LUCAS. WOOD. HANCOCK. OTTAWA. SANDUSKY. SENECA. WYANDOT. CRAWFORD. MARION. MORROW. ERIE. HURON. RICHLAND. ASHLAND. KNOX. LORAIN. CUYAHOGA. MEDINA. WAYNE. HOLMES. HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. OUDEMAN
Local storm report, Aug 13, 6:00 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
600 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0341 PM TSTM WND DMG 9 SW MEADVILLE 41.55N 80.27W
08/13/2005 CRAWFORD PA LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN SOUTH SHENAGO. REPORTED BY
DISPATCH.
0415 PM HAIL COCHRANTON 41.52N 80.05W
08/13/2005 0.75 INCH CRAWFORD PA LAW ENFORCEMENT
0.75 INCH HAIL ALONG WITH GUSTS OF 40-45 MPH.
0450 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 SE BUCYRUS 40.75N 82.91W
08/13/2005 CRAWFORD OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
BARN ROOF BLOWN OFF AND INTO ROAD.
&&
OUDEMANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 57 min |
| Aug 13, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 54 min |
| Aug 13, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 42 min |
| Aug 13, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 64 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.