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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 26, 2015Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2015, 6:31 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2015, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2015, 7:03 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 26, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 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.

323 
WUUS51 KCLE 262231
SVRCLE
OHC103-262315-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0021.150526T2231Z-150526T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
631 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 630 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CRESTON...OR
  7 MILES NORTH OF WOOSTER...MOVING NORTH AT 45 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...
  MEDINA...BRUNSWICK...WADSWORTH...RITTMAN...LODI...CRESTON...
  CHIPPEWA LAKE...HINCKLEY...SEVILLE...WESTFIELD CENTER...GLORIA
  GLENS PARK...BURBANK...VALLEY CITY...CHIPPEWA-ON-THE-LAKE AND
  BRIARWOOD BEACH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4099 8208 4100 8208 4120 8207 4120 8198
      4126 8197 4127 8196 4127 8169 4099 8169
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 201DEG 41KT 4093 8194 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

MAYERS

1 follow-up statement

758 
WWUS51 KCLE 262303
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
703 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 2015

OHC103-262313-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-150526T2315Z/
MEDINA OH-
703 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MEDINA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN OHIO.

LAT...LON 4099 8208 4100 8208 4120 8207 4120 8198
      4126 8197 4127 8196 4127 8169 4099 8169
TIME...MOT...LOC 2302Z 201DEG 41KT 4129 8176 

$$

MAYERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	39 min
May 26, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	32 min
May 26, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood	29 min
May 26, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
May 26, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	36 min
May 26, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	32 min
May 26, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Knox, Richland	23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.