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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 25, 2006Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2006, 5:17 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 73 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 25, 2006, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2006, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 73 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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
May 25, 3:43 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 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 252118
SVRCLE
OHC093-252230-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0070.060525T2117Z-060525T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
517 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 509 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF VERMILION...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE WELLINGTON...NORTH RIDGEVILLE...
  LORAIN...GRAFTON...ELYRIA...AVON LAKE AND AMHERST.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

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 4120 8199 4120 8207 4118 8208 4114 8207
      4114 8213 4118 8231 4124 8234 4141 8234
      4151 8202 4151 8199

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 252203
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
602 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

OHC093-252230-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-060525T2230Z/
LORAIN OH-
602 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2006


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


AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH.  THESE STORMS 
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WELLINGTON TO 
SHEFFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAGRANGE...
GRAFTON...
ELYRIA...
AVON...

LAT...LON 4120 8199 4120 8207 4118 8208 4114 8207
      4114 8213 4118 8231 4124 8234 4141 8234
      4151 8202 4151 8199

$$

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 May 25, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
350 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT)...
UPDATED TO ADD TORNADO WATCH BOX 395 VALID UNTIL MIDNIGHT.  SPC DID
NOT INCLUDE THE REST OF NE OH/NW PA SINCE THE WARM FRONT IS JUST E
OF CLE AND NOT SURE OF THE TIMING OF THE WARM FRONT.

&&

.PREVIOUS SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-SUN)...
TORNADO WATCH BOX IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WRN PORTION OF THE FORECAST
AREA UNTIL 10 PM EDT.  CURRENTLY WARM FRONT NEAR A CLE-COL LINE WITH
A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NW INDIANA TO SOUTHEAST OF ST LOUIS.
CAPES RANGE FROM 4500 J/KG SRN ILLINOIS TO AROUND 1500 J/KG NORTH
CENTRAL OHIO.  CAP HAS FINALLY ERODED AND TSRA DEVELOPING.  TWO
LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING.  THE FIRST NR A FDY TO EVV LINE
IN AN AREA OF LL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE...THE SECOND LINE FROM NORTH
CENTRAL INDIANA INTO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS WHICH IS RIGHT AHEAD OF THE
COLD FRONT.

VERY DRY AIR...WITH DELTA THEATA E OF GREATER THAN 30 KNOTS WILL
SUPPORT DOWNBURST WINDS.  BUT 25 KNOTS OF SHEAR BELOW 3KM WILL ALSO
SUPPORT ISOLATED TORNADOS.

EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...WITH SHOWERS TOMORROW AS THE UPPER
LOW MOVES ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO TOMORROW.  RIDGE STARTS TO BUILD IN
SATURDAY PROVIDING SOME DRY WEATHER THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE
WEEKEND.

&&

.LONG TERM (SUN NIGHT-THU)...
GFSLR/DGEX STILL NOT IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE LONG TERM SO AGAIN
WENT WITH THE ECMWF FOR THE LONG TERM FORECAST.  CURRENT UPPER LEVEL
PATTERN HAS SOMEWHAT OF A ZONAL FLOW ACROSS NRN HALF OF CONUS. THE
ECMWF HAS BEEN CONSISTENT BUILDING A STRONG UPPER RIDGE OVER THE ERN
1/3 OF THE CONUS BY MONDAY.  LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS HUDSON BAY
WITH A WEAK SFC TROUGH ACROSS NRN GREAT LAKES WEDNESDAY SO I LEFT
CURRENT FORECAST OF CHC POPS GOING WEDNESDAY.  OTHER THAN THAT
PRETTY MUCH A DRY FORECAST. BY THURSDAY BROAD BUT FLATTENED UPPER
RIDGE ACROSS ENTIRE CONUS WITH THE JET RUNNING ALONG THE NRN TIER.

&&

.AVIATION(18Z-18Z)...
STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS MODERATE OR SLGT RISK OF SVR STORMS FOR
A GOOD PART OF OUR AREA. TSTMS SHOULD DEVELOP THIS AFTN OVR OH/IN
AND ILL AND MOV SLOWLY EAST. INCREASED MOISTURE AND HIGH
INSTABILITIES SUGGEST AMPLE INGREDIENTS TO IGNITE SVR TSTMS THIS
AFTN AND EVE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. A WARM FRONT OVR OH
WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST AND BE FOLLOWED BY AN ACTIVE COLD FRONT
TOWARDS MORNING.

WILL GRADUALLY BRINGS CIGS AND VSBYS THIS EVE AND OVERNITE AS THE
COLD FRONT GETS CLOSER TO THE AREA. LOOK FOR MVFR CONDS PROBABLY
AFTER MIDNIGHT.

SATELLITE PICTURES AND METARS OBS STILL SHOWING SOME MVFR CIGS...
I EXPECT MOST OF THE MVFR CIGS THIS AFTN TO MOVE EAST OR
QUICKLY DISSIPATE.

&&

.CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.OH...TOR WATCH ALL COUNTIES EXCEPT OH014..023..033..088
.PA...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...DJB
LONG TERM...DJB
AVIATION...BC

Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 5:47 AM EDT, 11 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
547 AM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-261200-
LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-
ASHTABULA INLAND-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-
TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-
MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA-
547 AM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN
OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EASTWARD INTO PENNSYLVANIA BY
LATE EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...WITH THE
PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON IF
STORMS BECOME SEVERE.

LEZ142>149-162>169-261200-
MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH-RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH-
THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH-VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH-
AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH-
GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH-CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY-
MAUMEE BAY OH TO RENO BEACH OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-
RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-
THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-
VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-
AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-
WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-GENEVA-ON-
THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-
CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-
547 AM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE ERIE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS
LAKE ERIE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE PRIMARY
THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

LEINS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 4:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
412 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

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

0357 PM     HAIL             BOWLING GREEN           41.38N 83.65W
05/25/2006  E1.00 INCH       WOOD               OH   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

KIELTYKA

Local storm report, May 25, 4:39 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
439 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2006

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

0405 PM     HAIL             2 S RAWSON              40.93N 83.79W
05/25/2006  E0.88 INCH       HANCOCK            OH   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0422 PM     HAIL             1 W FOSTORIA            41.16N 83.43W
05/25/2006  E0.88 INCH       HANCOCK            OH   AMATEUR RADIO

            PENNY TO NICKEL HAIL.

0422 PM     TSTM WND GST     TIFFIN                  41.12N 83.18W
05/25/2006  E62.00 MPH       SENECA             OH   AMATEUR RADIO

0422 PM     HAIL             3 E WOODVILLE           41.45N 83.31W
05/25/2006  E0.88 INCH       SANDUSKY           OH   AMATEUR RADIO

0430 PM     HAIL             OAK HARBOR              41.51N 83.15W
05/25/2006  E0.75 INCH       OTTAWA             OH   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	64 min
May 25, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	55 min
May 25, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		119 min
May 25, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	42 min
May 25, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca	70 min
May 25, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	69 min
May 25, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	71 min
May 25, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	45 min
May 25, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	67 min
May 25, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	78 min
May 25, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
May 25, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	54 min
May 25, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	81 min
May 25, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	62 min
May 25, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		90 min
May 25, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	84 min
May 25, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	56 min
May 25, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	70 min
May 25, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Richland	49 min
May 25, 6:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Richland	3 hr
May 25, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	73 min
May 25, 6:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Marion	53 min
May 25, 6:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashland	40 min
May 25, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	63 min
May 25, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	58 min
May 25, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	38 min
May 25, 6:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	3 hr
May 25, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	91 min
May 25, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		90 min
May 25, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	85 min
May 25, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		84 min
May 25, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	39 min
May 25, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	67 min
May 25, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	54 min
May 25, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	67 min
May 25, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	55 min
May 25, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	53 min
May 25, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	66 min
May 25, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	79 min
May 25, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		93 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.