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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 28, 2006Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2006, 6:23 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 28, 2006, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Oct 28, 2006, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Portage County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 28, 7:00 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Mantua, OH	TREES DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 282223
SVRCLE
OHC133-282315-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0331.061028T2223Z-061028T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
623 PM EDT SAT OCT 28 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 620 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 NEAR
  GARRETTSVILLE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE STREETSBORO...RAVENNA AND MANTUA.

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 4134 8102 4134 8137 4114 8137 4114 8101

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 282254
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
654 PM EDT SAT OCT 28 2006

OHC133-282315-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0331.000000T0000Z-061028T2315Z/
PORTAGE OH-
654 PM EDT SAT OCT 28 2006


...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR
PORTAGE COUNTY...


AT 647 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR GARRETTSVILLE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GARRETTSVILLE...

LAT...LON 4134 8102 4134 8137 4114 8137 4114 8101

$$

BM

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 282316
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
716 PM EDT SAT OCT 28 2006

OHC133-282326-
/O.EXP.KCLE.SV.W.0331.000000T0000Z-061028T2315Z/
PORTAGE OH-
716 PM EDT SAT OCT 28 2006


...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PORTAGE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 715 
PM EDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED.

LAT...LON 4134 8102 4134 8137 4114 8137 4114 8101

$$

BM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 28, 4:33 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain	24 hr
Oct 28, 4:33 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 21 more	24 hr
Oct 28, 10:22 AM EDT	Lakeshore Flood Statement	CLE	Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Lake	22 hr
Oct 28, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		92 min
Oct 28, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	59 min
Oct 28, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga	38 min
Oct 28, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	36 min

Nearby

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.