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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 27, 1992Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 4:33 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1992, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1992, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 1992-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1204 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 1992-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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 KCAK 272034
SVRCAK
OHC169-272130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
433 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 430 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOOSTER IN WAYNE COUNTY.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN SOUTHERN ASHLAND COUNTY FROM THIS STORM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGFE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
IK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock56 min
Aug 27, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot51 min
Aug 27, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain68 min
Aug 27, 6:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga60 min

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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.