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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 23, 2015Hancock County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2015, 6:19 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 23, 2015, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2015, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

County Hancock County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 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.

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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 Aug 23, 3:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 3:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 6:19 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
619 PM EDT SUN AUG 23 2015

OHZ006-017-232300-
HANCOCK-WOOD-
619 PM EDT SUN AUG 23 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN WOOD AND HANCOCK
COUNTIES...

AT 618 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER GLANDORF...OR OVER
OTTAWA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FINDLAY...BLUFFTON...NORTH BALTIMORE...MCCOMB...ARLINGTON...RAWSON...
VAN BUREN...BLOOMDALE...CYGNET...JERRY CITY...HOYTVILLE...BENTON
RIDGE...JENERA...MOUNT CORY AND BAIRDSTOWN.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

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 4125 8388 4125 8354 4085 8358 4086 8388
TIME...MOT...LOC 2218Z 277DEG 38KT 4102 8407

SEFCOVIC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	41 min
Aug 23, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca, Wyandot	29 min
Aug 23, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford, Wyandot	38 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.