Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1992, 5:43 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1992, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 082143 SVRCLE OHC007-082230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 543 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 540 PM RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST ASHTABULA COUNTY...NEAR ORWELL OR 15 SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT ANDOVER AND DORSET. 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. FMK
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 42 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, 40 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, 26 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 6:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 115 min |
| Aug 8, 6:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wayne | 115 min |
| Aug 8, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 68 min |
| Aug 8, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 7:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 2 hr |
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.