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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2009, 8:39 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min. 4 reports 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
- Apr 2, 2009, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2009, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Seneca County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 8:47 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 8 S Tiffin, OH | |
| Apr 2, 8:58 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 Se New Riegel, OH | |
| Apr 2, 9:05 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 W Tiffin, OH | |
| Apr 2, 9:16 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Bettsville, OH |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2265 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 030039 SVRCLE OHC147-030145- /O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0013.090403T0039Z-090403T0145Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 839 PM EDT THU APR 2 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN SENECA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 838 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW RIEGEL...OR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SYCAMORE...AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NEW RIEGEL... TIFFIN... FOSTORIA... SEEK SHELTER INSIDE NOW AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4099 8310 4100 8342 4126 8342 4125 8309 TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 174DEG 34KT 4089 8323 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KCLE 030130 SVSCLE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 930 PM EDT THU APR 2 2009 OHC147-030140- /O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090403T0145Z/ SENECA OH- 930 PM EDT THU APR 2 2009 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN SENECA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 4099 8310 4100 8342 4126 8342 4125 8309 TIME...MOT...LOC 0130Z 174DEG 34KT 4138 8330 $$ ABE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Wyandot | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 AM EDT | Gale Warning | CLE | 35 hr | |
| Apr 3, 3:02 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Holmes, Lake, Mahoning and 6 more | 13 hr |
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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.