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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 19, 2015Hancock County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2015, 2:33 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 19, 2015, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

County Hancock County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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.

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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: 1669 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 19, 1:37 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 1:37 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 2:05 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
233 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 2015

OHZ006-017-027-191900-
HANCOCK-WYANDOT-WOOD-
233 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN WOOD...NORTHWESTERN
WYANDOT AND HANCOCK COUNTIES...

AT 229 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTHEAST OF DEFIANCE...

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND HALF INCH HAIL.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FINDLAY...FOSTORIA...BLUFFTON...NORTH BALTIMORE...MCCOMB...ARLINGTON...ARCADIA...
VAN BUREN...BRADNER...MOUNT BLANCHARD...PORTAGE AND HOYTVILLE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4134 8388 4136 8342 4089 8342 4088 8388
TIME...MOT...LOC 1829Z 274DEG 8KT 4119 8441

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 11:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie, Huron, Lorain	51 min
Jul 19, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford	23 min
Jul 19, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie, Hancock, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca, Wyandot	40 min
Jul 19, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Seneca, Wyandot	44 min
Jul 19, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Knox	46 min
Jul 19, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford, Huron, Richland	29 min
Jul 19, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashland, Morrow, Richland	32 min
Jul 19, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashland, Holmes, Knox, Morrow, Wayne	40 min
Jul 19, 7:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Marion	113 min
Jul 19, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford	40 min
Jul 19, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford	63 min
Jul 19, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Erie	40 min
Jul 19, 5:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Crawford, Erie	3 hr
Jul 19, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Venango	41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.