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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Aug 12, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 min. 2 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
- Aug 12, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Hail
- 0.50 in
- Wind
- 40
County Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 4:11 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sw Silver Lake, OH | TREE DOWN ON GARAGE. |
| Aug 12, 4:14 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sw Munroe Falls, OH | LARGE LIMB DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1075 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted.
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WWUS81 KCLE 122000
SPSCLE
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
400 PM EDT Thu Aug 12 2021
OHZ020>022-122045-
Summit OH-Portage OH-Medina OH-
400 PM EDT Thu Aug 12 2021
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Portage, southeastern Medina and southern Summit Counties through 445
PM EDT...
At 400 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Akron, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Akron, Ravenna, Cuyahoga Falls, Kent, Barberton, Green, Wadsworth,
Tallmadge, Mogadore, Stow, Norton, Brimfield, Fairlawn, Randolph,
Munroe Falls, Lakemore, Atwater, Silver Lake, Brady Lake and Portage
Lakes.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT for
northeastern Ohio.
&&
LAT...LON 4097 8164 4099 8165 4099 8169 4101 8177
4114 8171 4119 8167 4115 8121 4099 8111
4099 8142 4098 8142
TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 253DEG 21KT 4108 8159
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
$$
KahnThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 4:14 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Hancock, Holmes and 19 more | 15 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:56 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 64 min | |
| Aug 12, 5:12 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 33 min | |
| Aug 12, 7:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 87 min | |
| Aug 12, 8:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Medina | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 8:59 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 71 min | |
| Aug 12, 9:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 42 min |
| Aug 12, 10:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Portage | 45 min |
| Aug 12, 10:23 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Cuyahoga | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 10:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Portage, Summit, Trumbull | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 11:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Geauga | 53 min |
| Aug 12, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage, Summit | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Mahoning | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage, Summit, Trumbull | 63 min |
| Aug 12, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage | 68 min |
| Aug 12, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 6:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Crawford | 2 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.