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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 8, 1992Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1992, 5:23 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 1992, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 262 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 243 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 082124
SVRCAK
OHC153-082230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
523 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS OF AKRON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
THOMPSON

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, Aug 8, 4:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
PAZ001-082030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
350 PM EDT SAT AUG 08 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING NEAR THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE...

AT 350 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING
OFFSHORE FROM CONNEAUT OHIO...OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING JUST
SOUTH OF THE LAKESHORE IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO.  ALSO AN ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE CENTRAL LAKE SOUTH OF LONG POINT CANADA.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

SMALL BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR.

PARRISH
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 5:03 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
OHZALL-082200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
502 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF
OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE AKRON-CANTON...LORAIN...
ASHTABULA...CLEVELAND...YOUNGSTOWN...AND STEUBENVILLE.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS AT 5 PM
SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING ON A LINE FROM
EASTERN LAKE ERIE WEST OF BUFFALO SOUTHWEST TO NEAR MANSFIELD. OTHER
THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. ALL OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 25 MPH.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN ASHTABULA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
AND ALONG THE PENNSYLVANIA SHORELINE OF LAKE ERIE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF
55 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THERE IS A POSSIBILITY FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN THE WATCH AREA. IF THREATENING
WEATHER SHOULD APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...SEEK SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A REINFORCED SHELTER OR BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

lPARTAIN
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 5:17 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
OHZ004-007-082200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
515 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO
AND WESTERN PENNSYLV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula47 min
Aug 8, 6:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit115 min
Aug 8, 6:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWayne115 min
Aug 8, 6:10 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull50 min
Aug 8, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull68 min
Aug 8, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit65 min
Aug 8, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning63 min
Aug 8, 7:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEColumbiana63 min
Aug 8, 7:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark2 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.