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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 17, 2006Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2006, 5:28 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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: May 17, 2006, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2006, 6:06 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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
May 17, 5:35 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	2 S Bowling Green, OH	PEA TO SOME PENNY SIZE HAIL.

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

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 17, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 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 172128
SVRCLE
OHC173-172230-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0049.060517T2128Z-060517T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
528 PM EDT WED MAY 17 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BOWLING GREEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE WESTON.

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 4143 8379 4125 8381 4121 8344 4144 8343

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 172151
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
550 PM EDT WED MAY 17 2006

OHC173-172230-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-060517T2230Z/
WOOD OH-
550 PM EDT WED MAY 17 2006


...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR WOOD
COUNTY...


AT 540 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WAYNE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR BOWLING GREEN.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.

LAT...LON 4143 8379 4125 8381 4121 8344 4144 8343

$$

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 172206
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
607 PM EDT WED MAY 17 2006

OHC173-172217-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-060517T2230Z/
WOOD OH-
607 PM EDT WED MAY 17 2006


...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WOOD COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.

LAT...LON 4143 8379 4125 8381 4121 8344 4144 8343

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	25 min
May 17, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	49 min
May 17, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	53 min
May 17, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		90 min
May 17, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	37 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.