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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 19, 2017Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2017, 4:58 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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: Jun 19, 2017, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2017, 5:29 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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
Jun 19, 5:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Avon Lake, OH	ONE TREE DOWN ON CHEYENNE FALLS ROAD.
Jun 19, 5:20 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Bay Village, OH	ONE POWER LINE DOWN BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
Jun 19, 5:25 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Lakewood, OH	ONE LARGE BRANCH WAS DOWN BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS TAKING POWER LINES DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

715 
WUUS51 KCLE 192058
SVRCLE
OHC035-093-192145-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0073.170619T2058Z-170619T2145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
458 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2017

The National Weather Service in Cleveland has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southwestern Cuyahoga County in northeastern Ohio...
  Northern Lorain County in north central Ohio...

* Until 545 PM EDT

* At 458 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Avon Lake, or
  near Lorain, moving east at 45 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines. 

* Locations impacted include...
  Cleveland, Lorain, Elyria, Parma, Lakewood, Strongsville,
  Brunswick, Westlake, North Royalton, North Ridgeville, Avon Lake,
  Amherst, Grafton, North Olmsted, Avon, Parma Heights, Rocky River,
  Broadview Heights, Brook Park and Berea.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 4128 8167 4127 8193 4137 8228 4147 8225
      4148 8223 4154 8201 4153 8172 4154 8170
      4154 8168
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 279DEG 40KT 4149 8211 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

King

1 follow-up statement

928 
WWUS51 KCLE 192129
SVSCLE

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
529 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2017

OHC035-093-192138-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0073.000000T0000Z-170619T2145Z/
Cuyahoga OH-Lorain OH-
529 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2017

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN CUYAHOGA AND
NORTHERN LORAIN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore the warning has been cancelled.  However gusty winds are 
still possible with this thunderstorm. 

A tree was reported down by thunderstorm winds in Avon Lake with the 
storm at 510pm.

LAT...LON 4128 8167 4127 8193 4137 8228 4147 8225
      4148 8223 4154 8201 4153 8172 4154 8170
      4154 8168
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 279DEG 40KT 4144 8167 

$$

King

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 11:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes, Knox	6 hr
Jun 18, 11:33 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	13 hr
Jun 19, 2:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	6 hr
Jun 19, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Hancock, Lucas, Wood, Wyandot	118 min
Jun 19, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		88 min
Jun 19, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		86 min
Jun 19, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Morrow, Richland	39 min
Jun 19, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	30 min
Jun 19, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.