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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 18, 2016Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2016, 6:12 AM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 20 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, 6:12 AM EDT (10:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2016, 6:32 AM EDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:13 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1808 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

931 
WUUS51 KCLE 181012
SVRCLE
OHC093-181100-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0042.160718T1012Z-160718T1100Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 700 AM EDT

* AT 612 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  WELLINGTON... OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELYRIA...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

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

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  STRONGSVILLE...GRAFTON...WELLINGTON...EATON...OBERLIN...LAGRANGE...
  PENFIELD...PITTSFIELD...KIPTON...ROCHESTER AND EATON ESTATES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4113 8233 4130 8234 4134 8187 4131 8188
      4127 8193 4127 8197 4124 8197 4119 8202
      4119 8207 4115 8207 4113 8209 4114 8217
      4112 8218
TIME...MOT...LOC 1012Z 261DEG 20KT 4122 8223 

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

KOSARIK

1 follow-up statement

997 
WWUS51 KCLE 181032
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
632 AM EDT MON JUL 18 2016

OHC093-181042-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0042.000000T0000Z-160718T1100Z/
LORAIN OH-
632 AM EDT MON JUL 18 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL LORAIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HEAVY RAIN IS STILL
POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4113 8233 4130 8234 4134 8187 4131 8188
      4127 8193 4127 8197 4124 8197 4119 8202
      4119 8207 4115 8207 4113 8209 4114 8217
      4112 8218
TIME...MOT...LOC 1030Z 261DEG 20KT 4124 8208 

$$

KOSARIK

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, 5:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	41 min
Jul 18, 5:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	56 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.