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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 2, 1992Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1992, 4:49 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 1992, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1992, 5:23 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lorain County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 1992-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 292 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 1992-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 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
292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-355 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 022049
SVRCLE
OHC093-022145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
449 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...LORAIN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN LORAIN
COUNTY AT 445 PM EDT. COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS REPORTED WINDS GUSTING TO
ABOUT 45 MPH FROPM THAT STORM. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT
45 MPH AND IT WILL MOVE THROUGH ELYRIA BEFORE 530 PM EDT.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEfEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

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, May 2, 2:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
OHZALL-022100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
240 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS
OF OHIO UNTIL 10PM...

SOME OF THE MAJOR CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE AKRON... CLEVELAND
...YOUNGSTOWN...DAYTON...TOLEDO...MANSFIELD...ZANESVILLE... AND
COLUMBUS.

AT MID AFTERNOON A COLD FRONT WAS APPROACHING OHIO. UNSEASONABLY WARM
MOIST AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT HAS MADE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO OHIO...THUNDERSTORMS
WILL DEVELOP. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE IN THE WATCH AREA.

AT 230 PM RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN
SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN. THERE WAS ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS
BETWEEN THE ISLANDS AREA TO FINDLEY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN
HOUR.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 56 MILES AN
HOUR...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. =IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

FENNER
Special weather statement, May 2, 3:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
OHZALL-022300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
345 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS
OF OHIO UNTIL 10PM...

SOME OF THE MAJOR CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE AKRON...CLEVELAND
...YOUNGSTOWN...DAYTON...TOLEDO...MANSFIELD...ZANESVILLE...AND
COLUMBUS.

AT 340 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST
OHIO AND OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO AND LAKE ERIE. THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN A THIN BAND OVER NORTHWEST
OHIO FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF TOLEDO...SOUTHWEST THROUGH FINDLAY TO NEAR
LIMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH.

THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST OHIO APPEARS TO BE THE AREA OF
CONCERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. THIS MOVEMENT WILL BRING THE
LINE OF STORMS TO ROUGHLY A CLEVELAND...MANSFIELD TO COLUMBUS LINE
AROUND 5 PM AND INTO EASTERN OHIO IN THE 530 PM TO 700 PM TIME FRAME.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED YET...BUT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR
THE THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 56 MPH AND HAIL
THREE-QUARTERS OF INCH OR GREATER.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

GABRIC
Special weather statement, May 2, 4:13 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-022115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
412 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL
10 PM.

AT 410 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM SANDUSKY TO TIFFIN TO NEAR LIMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER
SENECA COUNTY NEAR TIFFIN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN
HOUR. THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO WYANDOT COUNTY BY 430 PM.

ALTHOUGH NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AS OF 410 PM...
THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN
HOUR. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THAT THEY RELAY Y!OUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

MURPHY
Special weather statement, May 2, 4:22 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
OHZ011-006-022130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH
420 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...
MORROW...KNOX AND ASHLAND COUNTIES UNTIL 10 PM EDT.

TWO LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL OHIO LATE THIS
AFTERNOON.

AT 415 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE FIRST LINE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CLEVELAND...SOUTH TO MANSFIELD AND
FURTHER SOUTHWEST TO MT GILEAD. THE SECOND LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE
STRONGER AND WERE LOCATED ON A LINE FROM HURON SOUTH TO UPPER SANDUSKY
AND SOUTHWEST TO NEAR DAYTON. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT
45 MPH.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE EFFECTING THE MANSFIELD AREA AROUND 5 PM
EDT.

HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL OHIO.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING;
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

BRILLHART
Special weather statement, May 2, 4:46 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
PAZ001-02-022200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
440 PM EDT SAT MAY 02 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS HEADING FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 9PM EDT...

AT 435 PM EDT ERIE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT
EXTENDED FROM CONNEAUT OHIO TO SANDUSKY OHIO.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO
THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH ERIE AND CRAWFORD
COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AND SMALL HAIL.

SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA LATER
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAY BECOME SEVERE AND CONTAIN WIND GUSTS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR.

A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH WESTERN OHIO IS PRODUCING THE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

STAYED TO TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE
WARNING.

TJP/NS/JRH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake45 min
May 2, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull36 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.