Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 2012, 4:32 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 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
- Jan 17, 2012, 4:32 PM EST (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2012, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Ashtabula County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 4:53 PM EST | TSTM WND GST 0 | Conneaut, OH | 65 MPH |
| Jan 17, 5:06 PM EST | TSTM WND GST 59 | Ashtabula, OH | ASHTABULA COUNTY AIRPORT NEAR JEFFERSON. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 565 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 544 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
928
WUUS51 KCLE 172132
SVRCLE
OHC007-172215-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0004.120117T2132Z-120117T2215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
432 PM EST TUE JAN 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ASHTABULA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
* UNTIL 515 PM EST
* AT 429 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GENEVA...AND MOVING
EAST AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JEFFERSON...
ASHTABULA...
NORTH KINGSVILLE...
ANDOVER...
CONNEAUT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE NOW AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 4186 8052 4150 8052 4150 8100 4186 8101
4188 8091 4191 8082 4193 8074 4193 8072
4194 8070 4198 8052
TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 264DEG 50KT 4177 8094
$$
LAPLANTEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 4:23 AM EST | Gale Warning | CLE | 24 hr | |
| Jan 17, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 23 min |
| Jan 17, 3:12 PM EST | Wind Advisory | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Lake | 7 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Portage, Summit | 49 min |
| Jan 17, 5:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull | 59 min |
| Jan 17, 5:04 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 15 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.