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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 2020Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2020, 3:49 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 18, 2020, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2020, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 18, 12:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:58 AM EDT, 11 hours 51 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
358 AM EDT Thu Jun 18 2020

LEZ061-142>149-162>169-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-
089-PAZ001>003-190800-
Lake Erie open waters from Ripley to Buffalo NY-
Lake Erie nearshore waters from Maumee Bay to Reno Beach OH-
Lake Erie nearshore waters from Reno Beach to The Islands OH-
Lake Erie nearshore waters from The Islands to Vermilion OH-
Lake Erie nearshore waters from Vermilion to Avon Point OH-
Lake Erie nearshore waters from Avon Point to Willowick OH-
Lake Erie nearshore waters from Willowick to Geneva-on-the Lake OH-
Lake Erie nearshore waters from Geneva-on-the-Lake to Conneaut OH-
Lake Erie nearshore waters from Conneaut OH to Ripley NY-
Lake Erie open waters from Maumee Bay to Reno Beach OH-
Lake Erie open waters from Reno Beach to The Islands OH-
Lake Erie open waters from The Islands to Vermilion OH-
Lake Erie open waters from Vermilion to Avon Point OH-
Lake Erie open waters from Avon Point to Willowick OH-
Lake Erie open waters from Willowick to Geneva-on-the-Lake OH-
Lake Erie open waters from Geneva-on-the-Lake to Conneaut OH-
Lake Erie open waters from Conneaut OH to Ripley NY-Lucas-Wood-
Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Lorain-Cuyahoga-Lake-Geauga-Ashtabula Inland-
Hancock-Seneca-Huron-Medina-Summit-Portage-Trumbull-Wyandot-Crawford-
Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning-Marion-Morrow-Holmes-Knox-
Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie-Southern Erie-
358 AM EDT Thu Jun 18 2020

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Lake Erie, eastern
Lake Erie, western Lake Erie, north central Ohio, northeast Ohio,
northwest Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:49 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
349 PM EDT Thu Jun 18 2020

OHZ029-030-038-047-182015-
Holmes-Richland-Ashland-Knox-
349 PM EDT Thu Jun 18 2020

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN RICHLAND...SOUTH
CENTRAL ASHLAND...WESTERN HOLMES AND NORTHEASTERN KNOX COUNTIES...

At 349 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Nashville, or
11 miles west of Millersburg, moving west at 20 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Loudonville, Danville, Glenmont, Nashville, Perrysville and Gann.

LAT...LON 4068 8240 4064 8203 4046 8202 4045 8208
      4045 8218 4044 8219 4041 8238
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 087DEG 19KT 4056 8213

Saunders

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Richland	49 min
Jun 18, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford, Morrow	49 min
Jun 18, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Marion, Morrow	23 min
Jun 18, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Huron	43 min
Jun 18, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Cuyahoga	42 min

Nearby

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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.