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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 20, 1992Erie County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1992, 2:52 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1992, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1992, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 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 201852
SVRCLE
OHC043-202000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
252 PM EDT MON JUL 20 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
RADAR AT 250 PM INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10
MILES NORTHEAST OF FREMONT. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND
SHOULD BE ENTERING WESTERN PORTIONS OF ERIE COUNTY BY 3 PM.
 
SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
MILLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas40 min
Jul 20, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry53 min
Jul 20, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning61 min
Jul 20, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana50 min
Jul 20, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark64 min
Jul 20, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana45 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.