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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 10, 2016Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2016, 4:12 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 10, 2016, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 10, 4:25 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 54	4 Wsw Elyria, OH	A 47 KNOT THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST WAS MEASURED AT KLPR.
Sep 10, 4:28 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Oberlin, OH	SEVERAL TREES AND LARGE BRANCHES DOWN ACROSS CITY. OTHER SCATTERED TREES, BRANCHES AND UTILITY LINES DOWN ACROSS LORAIN COUNTY.
Sep 10, 4:42 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 54	1 W Brook Park, OH	A 47 KNOT THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST WAS MEASURED AT KCLE.
Sep 10, 4:58 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 46	3 N Cleveland, OH	A 40 KNOT THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST WAS MEASURED AT KBKL.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 10, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 258 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

As transmitted.

580 
WUUS51 KCLE 102012
SVRCLE
OHC035-093-103-102100-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0074.160910T2012Z-160910T2100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
412 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO...
  NORTHERN MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO...
  LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 412 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM LORAIN TO NEAR WELLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  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...
  CLEVELAND...LORAIN...ELYRIA...VERMILION...PARMA...LAKEWOOD...
  STRONGSVILLE...BRUNSWICK...WESTLAKE...NORTH ROYALTON...
  NORTH RIDGEVILLE...AVON LAKE...AMHERST...GRAFTON...WELLINGTON...
  NORTH OLMSTED...AVON...PARMA HEIGHTS...
  ROCKY RIVER AND BROADVIEW HEIGHTS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4127 8169 4110 8218 4106 8218 4107 8234
      4143 8234 4143 8227 4153 8202 4153 8172
      4158 8163
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 243DEG 41KT 4143 8215 4108 8225 

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

OUDEMAN

1 follow-up statement

128 
WWUS51 KCLE 102035
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
435 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016

OHC035-093-103-102100-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-160910T2100Z/
CUYAHOGA OH-MEDINA OH-LORAIN OH-
435 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN CUYAHOGA...NORTHERN MEDINA AND LORAIN COUNTIES...

AT 435 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR WESTLAKE TO NEAR GRAFTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLEVELAND...LORAIN...ELYRIA...VERMILION...PARMA...LAKEWOOD...
STRONGSVILLE...BRUNSWICK...WESTLAKE...NORTH ROYALTON...
NORTH RIDGEVILLE...AVON LAKE...AMHERST...GRAFTON...WELLINGTON...
NORTH OLMSTED...AVON...PARMA HEIGHTS...
ROCKY RIVER AND BROADVIEW HEIGHTS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4158 8163 4127 8169 4110 8218 4106 8218
      4107 8234 4143 8234 4143 8227 4153 8202
      4153 8172
TIME...MOT...LOC 2035Z 241DEG 36KT 4149 8193 4120 8203 

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

OUDEMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford, Huron	47 min
Sep 10, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Huron, Seneca	48 min
Sep 10, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		119 min
Sep 10, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashland, Richland	65 min
Sep 10, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Knox, Medina, Morrow, Richland, Wayne	61 min
Sep 10, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		112 min
Sep 10, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake	65 min
Sep 10, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Holmes, Knox, Portage, Stark, Summit, Wayne	61 min
Sep 10, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Geauga	24 min
Sep 10, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Portage, Summit, Trumbull	65 min
Sep 10, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	67 min
Sep 10, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.