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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 18, 1992Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1992, 12:29 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1992, 12:29 PM EDT (16:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1992, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ashtabula County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 101 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 181628
SVRCLE
OHC007-181730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1229 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...ASHTABULA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 1220 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
STRETCHING FROM THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF ASHTABULA COUNTY TO THE
SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE COUNTY. NO MOVEMENT HAS YET BEEN DETERMINED.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MLAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
SJN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula61 min
Jul 18, 2:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
Jul 18, 4:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 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.