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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 9, 2021Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2021, 1:24 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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: Aug 9, 2021, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2021, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Lucas County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

160 
WWUS81 KCLE 091724
SPSCLE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
124 PM EDT Mon Aug 9 2021
 
OHZ003-006-091815-
Wood OH-Lucas OH-
124 PM EDT Mon Aug 9 2021

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Wood
and northeastern Lucas Counties through 215 PM EDT...

At 124 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Rossford, or 9 miles south of Toledo, moving north at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around 
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Toledo, Perrysburg, Oregon, Rossford, Northwood, Maumee, Ottawa
Hills, Walbridge, Millbury, Luckey, Harbor View, Reno Beach, Bono and
Stony Ridge.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. 

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 4172 8369 4173 8346 4173 8345 4172 8347
      4170 8346 4169 8343 4169 8335 4171 8334
      4164 8323 4162 8317 4162 8341 4144 8345
      4147 8369
TIME...MOT...LOC 1724Z 187DEG 25KT 4153 8356 

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

$$

Kahn

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Wood	42 min
Aug 9, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Knox	31 min
Aug 9, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lucas	34 min
Aug 9, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Richland	32 min
Aug 9, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Summit	32 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.