Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2011, 4:19 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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 12, 2011, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2011, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Trumbull County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:36 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Warren, OH |
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 12, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
060 WUUS51 KCLE 122019 SVRCLE OHC155-122100- /O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0038.110512T2019Z-110512T2100Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 419 PM EDT THU MAY 12 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 417 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 NEAR WARREN...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CORTLAND... HUBBARD... 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 4114 8095 4135 8094 4135 8052 4113 8052 TIME...MOT...LOC 2019Z 267DEG 11KT 4123 8076 $$ OUDEMAN
1 follow-up statement
548 WWUS51 KCLE 122044 SVSCLE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 444 PM EDT THU MAY 12 2011 OHC155-122100- /O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0038.000000T0000Z-110512T2100Z/ TRUMBULL OH- 444 PM EDT THU MAY 12 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY... AT 435 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VIENNA...OR 6 MILES EAST OF WARREN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... BROOKFIELD CENTER...YANKEE LAKE...WEST HILL AND HUBBARD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE NOW AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. && LAT...LON 4114 8095 4135 8094 4135 8052 4113 8052 TIME...MOT...LOC 2043Z 267DEG 11KT 4123 8066 $$ SCHULER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Wayne | 57 min |
| May 12, 7:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 58 min |
| May 12, 8:23 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 82 min | |
| May 12, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 40 min |
| May 12, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 42 min |
| May 12, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Huron, Richland, Seneca | 56 min |
| May 12, 3:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 3 hr |
| May 12, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Medina, Wayne | 55 min |
| May 12, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 51 min |
| May 12, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Portage, Summit | 64 min |
| May 12, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina, Summit | 67 min |
| May 12, 4:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Ashland, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Huron, Lake and 5 more | 10 hr |
| May 12, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 46 min |
| May 12, 4:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 3 hr |
| May 12, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage, Trumbull | 51 min |
| May 12, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 45 min |
| May 12, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Medina, Wayne | 47 min |
| May 12, 5:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 9 hr |
| May 12, 5:29 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 7 hr |
| May 12, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 77 min | |
| May 12, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 47 min |
| May 12, 6:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 3 hr |
| May 12, 6:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 4 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.