Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1992, 8:43 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 1992, 8:43 PM EDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1992, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lucas County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOL 210044 SVRTOL OHC095-210130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 843 PM EDT MON APR 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...LUCAS COUNTY AT 840 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO DOWNTOWN TOLEDO BY 9 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERUSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. CB
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 8:24 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-210130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 817 PM EDT MON APR 20 1992 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 815 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR HILLSDALE MICHIGAN SOUTH ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO TO NEAR LIMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN FULTON COUNTY NEAR WAUSEON...15 MILES WEST OF TOLEDO AND IN WOOD COUNTY NEAR NORTH BALTIMORE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS TAKE SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. CB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 50 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.