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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 23, 2011Sandusky County, Seneca County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2011, 5:53 PM EDT for Sandusky County, Seneca County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 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: Jul 23, 2011, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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
Jul 23, 6:16 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 Nw Tiffin, OH	A FEW LIMBS DOWN.

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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

939 
WUUS51 KCLE 232153
SVRCLE
OHC143-147-173-232300-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0207.110723T2153Z-110723T2300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
553 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO
  NORTHWESTERN SENECA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO
  SOUTHERN WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 552 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF NORTH BALTIMORE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FOSTORIA...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE NOW AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

&&

PLEASE REPORT HAIL AND STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 4138 8322 4113 8320 4114 8342 4117 8342
      4117 8367 4117 8375 4134 8375
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 269DEG 15KT 4125 8362

$$

OUDEMAN

2 follow-up statements

963 
WWUS51 KCLE 232215
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
615 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2011

OHC143-147-173-232300-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0207.000000T0000Z-110723T2300Z/
SENECA OH-WOOD OH-SANDUSKY OH-
615 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN SANDUSKY...SOUTHERN WOOD AND NORTHWESTERN SENECA
COUNTIES...

AT 615 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR WEST MILLGROVE...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF FOSTORIA...MOVING EAST
AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
BRADNER...RISINGSUN...FOSTORIA...BURGOON...HELENA AND BETTSVILLE.

LAT...LON 4138 8322 4113 8320 4114 8342 4117 8342
      4117 8367 4117 8375 4134 8375
TIME...MOT...LOC 2216Z 269DEG 15KT 4125 8349

$$

FITZ

013 
WWUS51 KCLE 232232
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
632 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2011

OHC143-147-173-232300-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0207.000000T0000Z-110723T2300Z/
SENECA OH-WOOD OH-SANDUSKY OH-
632 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN SANDUSKY...SOUTHERN WOOD AND NORTHWESTERN SENECA
COUNTIES...

AT 628 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RISINGSUN...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF
FOSTORIA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
HELENA...BURGOON AND BETTSVILLE.

LAT...LON 4138 8322 4113 8320 4114 8342 4117 8342
      4117 8367 4117 8375 4134 8375
TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 269DEG 15KT 4125 8340

$$

FITZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 11:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		87 min
Jul 23, 12:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Knox	60 min
Jul 23, 1:29 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Knox	3 hr
Jul 23, 2:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Seneca	11 hr
Jul 23, 3:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	CLE	Ashland, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Hancock and 21 more	26 hr
Jul 23, 4:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lorain	4 hr
Jul 23, 6:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Crawford, Huron, Lorain, Richland	3 hr
Jul 23, 8:50 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	4 hr
Jul 23, 2:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Seneca	8 hr
Jul 23, 2:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Wyandot	4 hr
Jul 23, 2:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Marion, Morrow	4 hr
Jul 23, 3:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wyandot	6 hr
Jul 23, 3:59 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Crawford, Hancock, Holmes, Huron, Knox and 8 more	23 hr
Jul 23, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	55 min
Jul 23, 5:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Holmes	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		76 min
Jul 23, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	62 min
Jul 23, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		89 min
Jul 23, 6:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Wood	4 hr
Jul 23, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Cuyahoga	3 hr
Jul 23, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	78 min
Jul 23, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 23, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga	44 min
Jul 23, 7:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	6 hr
Jul 23, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga, Trumbull	67 min
Jul 23, 7:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Hancock	3 hr

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.