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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 9, 2015Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2015, 7:51 PM EDT for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min. 4 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: Apr 9, 2015, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 2015, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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
Apr 9, 8:08 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Whitehouse, OH	HAIL AND STRONG WINDS
Apr 9, 8:14 PM EDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	E Maumee, OH
Apr 9, 8:15 PM EDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	Sw Walbridge, OH
Apr 9, 8:28 PM EDT	HAIL 1.5	S Perrysburg, OH

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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

844 
WUUS51 KCLE 092351
SVRCLE
OHC095-173-100045-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0002.150409T2351Z-150410T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
751 PM EDT THU APR 9 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LUCAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...
  NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 750 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF SWANTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
           ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WATERVILLE...BOWLING GREEN...SYLVANIA...TOLEDO...WHITEHOUSE...
  HOLLAND...PERRYSBURG...ROSSFORD...NORTHWOOD...OREGON...GRAND
  RAPIDS...TONTOGANY...BERKEY...HASKINS...MAUMEE...OTTAWA HILLS...
  LUCKEY...PEMBERVILLE...WALBRIDGE AND MILLBURY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4172 8387 4174 8345 4172 8342 4169 8342
      4169 8337 4171 8334 4163 8319 4175 8310
      4174 8310 4164 8318 4163 8316 4162 8316
      4162 8342 4135 8343 4137 8389
TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 253DEG 44KT 4150 8397

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

KUBINA

1 follow-up statement

460 
WWUS51 KCLE 100038
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
838 PM EDT THU APR 9 2015

OHC095-173-100048-
/O.EXP.KCLE.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150410T0045Z/
WOOD OH-LUCAS OH-
838 PM EDT THU APR 9 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LUCAS AND NORTHERN WOOD
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 845 PM EDT...

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

LAT...LON 4172 8387 4174 8345 4172 8342 4169 8342
      4169 8337 4171 8334 4163 8319 4175 8310
      4174 8310 4164 8318 4163 8316 4162 8316
      4162 8342 4135 8343 4137 8389
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 253DEG 44KT 4167 8323

$$

KUBINA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 3:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	CLE	Ashland, Holmes, Knox, Marion, Morrow, Richland and 2 more	27 hr
Apr 9, 5:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Knox	3 hr
Apr 9, 6:46 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Marion	46 hr
Apr 9, 10:54 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Marion	8 days
Apr 9, 3:15 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes, Wayne	8 days
Apr 9, 3:32 PM EDT	Gale Warning	CLE		24 hr
Apr 9, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	44 min
Apr 9, 5:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Hancock, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	26 min
Apr 9, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		72 min

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.