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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 3, 2012Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2012, 12:11 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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 3, 2012, 12:11 PM EDT (16:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2012, 1:05 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:14 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 3, 12:13 PM EDT	HAIL 0.88	Smithville, OH	PEA TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
Jul 3, 12:13 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Smithville, OH

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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

286 
WUUS51 KCLE 031611
SVRCLE
OHC169-031715-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0095.120703T1611Z-120703T1715Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1211 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT

* AT 1210 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
  ORRVILLE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ORRVILLE...
  DOYLESTOWN...
  DALTON...
  MOUNT EATON...

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 4071 8200 4099 8191 4099 8167 4098 8165
      4067 8165 4067 8180
TIME...MOT...LOC 1611Z 295DEG 19KT 4086 8185

$$

LAPLANTE

1 follow-up statement

280 
WWUS51 KCLE 031705
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
105 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012

OHC169-031715-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-120703T1715Z/
WAYNE OH-
105 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF 
THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 4071 8200 4099 8191 4099 8167 4098 8165
      4067 8165 4067 8180
TIME...MOT...LOC 1705Z 295DEG 19KT 4074 8151

$$

JMAYERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 5:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		43 min
Jul 3, 9:12 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 3, 9:43 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 3, 9:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	65 min
Jul 3, 11:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	26 min
Jul 3, 11:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	39 min
Jul 3, 11:35 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	40 min
Jul 3, 3:15 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more	30 hr
Jul 3, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Knox, Morrow, Richland	34 min
Jul 3, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Jul 3, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min

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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.