Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 2020, 12:02 PM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 20, 2020, 12:02 PM EDT (16:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2020, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
150
WUUS51 KCLE 201602 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC133-153-201630-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0002.200320T1602Z-200320T1630Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
1202 PM EDT Fri Mar 20 2020
The National Weather Service in Cleveland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northern Portage County in northeastern Ohio...
Northern Summit County in northeastern Ohio...
* Until 1230 PM EDT.
* At 1202 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Cuyahoga
Falls, or 9 miles north of Akron, moving east at 60 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
* Locations impacted include...
Akron, Ravenna, Cuyahoga Falls, Kent, Hudson, Twinsburg,
Streetsboro, Macedonia, Garrettsville, Mantua, Stow, Aurora,
Brecksville, Fairlawn, Munroe Falls, Richfield, Reminderville,
Silver Lake, Windham and Hiram.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 4128 8168 4128 8157 4131 8157 4135 8128
4135 8100 4116 8100 4113 8168
TIME...MOT...LOC 1602Z 262DEG 51KT 4122 8152
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
Jaszka1 follow-up statement
964
WWUS51 KCLE 201620
SVSCLE
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
1220 PM EDT Fri Mar 20 2020
OHC153-201630-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-200320T1630Z/
Summit OH-
1220 PM EDT Fri Mar 20 2020
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 4126 8137 4132 8131 4135 8100 4116 8100
4116 8136
TIME...MOT...LOC 1620Z 262DEG 51KT 4126 8118
$$
OHC133-201630-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-200320T1630Z/
Portage OH-
1220 PM EDT Fri Mar 20 2020
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 PM EDT
FOR NORTHERN PORTAGE COUNTY...
At 1220 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Mantua, or 7
miles northeast of Ravenna, moving east at 60 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted include...
Ravenna, Kent, Streetsboro, Garrettsville, Mantua, Aurora, Windham,
Hiram, Brady Lake, Sugar Bush Knolls and Wayland.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 4126 8137 4132 8131 4135 8100 4116 8100
4116 8136
TIME...MOT...LOC 1620Z 262DEG 51KT 4126 8118
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
LaPlanteThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 6:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Holmes, Knox | 62 min |
| Mar 20, 11:05 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Wood | 14 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 12:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Richland and 3 more | 42 min |
| Mar 20, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 12:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Mahoning | 42 min |
| Mar 20, 12:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Holmes, Knox, Stark | 46 min |
| Mar 20, 4:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Marion | 42 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.