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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 18, 2016Erie County, Huron County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2016, 5:04 AM EDT for Erie County, Huron 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: Jul 18, 2016, 5:04 AM EDT (09:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2016, 5:45 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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 nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 353 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 6.8

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The text

As transmitted.

368 
WUUS51 KCLE 180904
SVRCLE
OHC043-077-180945-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0040.160718T0904Z-160718T0945Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
504 AM EDT MON JUL 18 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HURON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...
  ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 545 AM EDT

* AT 503 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SANDUSKY...
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SANDUSKY...WESTERN VERMILION...VERMILION...BELLEVUE...MILAN...
  NORTHERN MILAN...CASTALIA...BERLIN HEIGHTS...BLOOMINGVILLE...
  SANDUSKY SOUTH...FAIRVIEW LANES AND BIRMINGHAM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4147 8281 4145 8278 4145 8257 4138 8249
      4143 8235 4128 8234 4129 8284 4144 8284
TIME...MOT...LOC 0903Z 269DEG 53KT 4141 8269 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 4:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	28 min
Jul 18, 4:11 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 18, 4:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	44 min
Jul 18, 4:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	42 min
Jul 18, 4:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	33 min
Jul 18, 4:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Seneca, Wyandot	42 min
Jul 18, 5:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	56 min
Jul 18, 6:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	20 min
Jul 18, 3:44 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		6 hr
Jul 18, 3:47 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	CLE	Ashtabula	6 hr

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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.