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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 2, 2018Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 2018, 5:04 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 12 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: Oct 2, 2018, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 2018, 5:16 PM EDT
In force: 12 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 2, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 779 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

012 
WUUS51 KCLE 022104
SVRCLE
OHC075-022130-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0079.181002T2104Z-181002T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
504 PM EDT TUE OCT 2 2018

The National Weather Service in Cleveland has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Eastern Holmes County in northeastern Ohio...

* Until 530 PM EDT.

* At 504 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Walnut Creek,
  or 11 miles east of Millersburg, moving east at 30 mph.

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

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Expect damage to 
           trees and power lines.

* Locations impacted include...
  Walnut Creek, Sugarcreek, Winesburg, Farmerstown, Baltic and Charm.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4046 8181 4064 8178 4064 8166 4063 8167
      4062 8166 4054 8166 4045 8167 4044 8169
TIME...MOT...LOC 2104Z 276DEG 27KT 4054 8170 

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

Sefcovic

1 follow-up statement

851 
WWUS51 KCLE 022116
SVSCLE

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
516 PM EDT TUE OCT 2 2018

OHC075-022125-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-181002T2130Z/
Holmes OH-
516 PM EDT TUE OCT 2 2018

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
        
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT for
northeastern Ohio.

LAT...LON 4046 8181 4064 8178 4064 8166 4063 8167
      4062 8166 4054 8166 4045 8167 4044 8169
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 276DEG 27KT 4053 8158 

$$

Sefcovic

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 10:16 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		11 hr
Oct 2, 2:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	45 min
Oct 2, 3:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	44 min
Oct 2, 3:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	111 min
Oct 2, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	45 min
Oct 2, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	46 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.