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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 25, 2016Mahoning County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2016, 7:36 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 24 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 25, 2016, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Mahoning County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

099 
WUUS51 KCLE 252336
SVRCLE
OHC099-260000-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0064.160825T2336Z-160826T0000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
736 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MAHONING COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO...

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 736 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF
  EAST PALESTINE...MOVING EAST AT 25 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...
  YOUNGSTOWN...COLUMBIANA...BOARDMAN...CANFIELD...STRUTHERS...
  POLAND...NEW MIDDLETOWN...LOWELLVILLE AND GREENFORD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4105 8081 4106 8052 4090 8052 4090 8081
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 271DEG 23KT 4096 8053 

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

LAPLANTE

1 follow-up statement

953 
WWUS51 KCLE 252359
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
759 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2016

OHC099-260008-
/O.EXP.KCLE.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-160826T0000Z/
MAHONING OH-
759 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MAHONING COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM EDT...
                
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 WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER GUSTY
WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM THAT IS
MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST MAHONING COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4105 8081 4106 8052 4090 8052 4090 8081
TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 271DEG 23KT 4096 8053 

$$

OUDEMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 8:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		84 min
Aug 24, 8:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	38 min
Aug 24, 8:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wood	48 min
Aug 24, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Hancock, Lucas, Wood	44 min
Aug 24, 9:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	40 min
Aug 24, 10:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca	56 min
Aug 25, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	27 min
Aug 25, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	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.