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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 5, 2015Stark County, Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2015, 5:35 PM EDT for Stark County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 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: May 5, 2015, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2015, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Stark County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 5, 5:35 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Apple Creek, OH
May 5, 6:00 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Brewster, 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 (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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.

199 
WUUS51 KCLE 052135
SVRCLE
OHC151-169-052230-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0004.150505T2135Z-150505T2230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
535 PM EDT TUE MAY 5 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 532 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BREWSTER...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 15 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...
  BREWSTER...MASSILLON...NAVARRE...EAST SPARTA...WAYNESBURG AND BEACH
  CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4067 8165 4067 8181 4070 8190 4084 8173
      4074 8120 4072 8121 4072 8123 4064 8124
      4065 8144 4066 8146 4065 8147 4063 8164
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 290DEG 13KT 4072 8160

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

$$

OUDEMAN

1 follow-up statement

096 
WWUS51 KCLE 052226
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
626 PM EDT TUE MAY 5 2015

OHC151-169-052235-
/O.EXP.KCLE.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-150505T2230Z/
STARK OH-WAYNE OH-
626 PM EDT TUE MAY 5 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE AND
SOUTHERN STARK COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM EDT...

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

LAT...LON 4067 8165 4067 8181 4070 8190 4084 8173
      4074 8120 4072 8121 4072 8123 4064 8124
      4065 8144 4066 8146 4065 8147 4063 8164
TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 290DEG 13KT 4066 8138

$$

JAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 4:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Crawford, Wyandot	35 min
May 5, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Richland	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.