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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 15, 1988Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1988, 5:59 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 1988, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1988, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 15, 6:50 PM EDT	Hail 1	Summit, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 1524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 152159
SVRCAK
OHC153-152300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
559 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE STATE OF OHIO
      SUMMIT

AT 550 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN MEDINA COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHEGLTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

 NIBERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	58 min
May 15, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	55 min
May 15, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	56 min
May 15, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga	59 min
May 15, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	55 min
May 15, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga	59 min
May 15, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Fulton	53 min
May 15, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	44 min
May 15, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.