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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 26, 2012Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2012, 4:49 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 min. 2 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: Jul 26, 2012, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 26, 5:15 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Killbuck, OH	TREE DOWN
Jul 26, 5:18 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Millersburg, OH	TELEPHONE POLE DOWN.

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
Jul 26, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 2136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 13.9

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The text

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

000
WUUS51 KCLE 262049
SVRCLE
OHC075-262130-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0142.120726T2049Z-120726T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
449 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 448 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
  BERLIN...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WALNUT CREEK...
  WINESBURG...

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 4045 8212 4046 8218 4047 8218 4067 8191
      4067 8165 4045 8166 4044 8167
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 271DEG 32KT 4051 8177

$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 10:05 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		22 hr
Jul 26, 2:55 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		110 min
Jul 26, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Trumbull	45 min
Jul 26, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	48 min
Jul 26, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	60 min
Jul 26, 1:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Trumbull	24 min
Jul 26, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	52 min
Jul 26, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	47 min
Jul 26, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	47 min
Jul 26, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	50 min
Jul 26, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	52 min
Jul 26, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	44 min
Jul 26, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		85 min
Jul 26, 5:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Medina, Summit	3 hr
Jul 26, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	36 min
Jul 26, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	37 min
Jul 26, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	35 min
Jul 26, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		52 min
Jul 26, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake	40 min
Jul 26, 7:33 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Geauga, Portage, Summit	2 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.