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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 27, 1992Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 5:37 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1992, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1992, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lorain County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 27, 6:17 PM EDTHail 0.75Lorain, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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 1992-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 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 272139
SVRCLE
OHC093-272245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
537 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...LORAIN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 530 PM WEATHER SERVICE SHOWED A LINE OF POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING EAST TO WEST ACROSS SOUTHERN LORAIN COUNTY.
THE LINE ALSO EXTENDED EAST INTO NORTHERN MEDINA COUNTY. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE LORAIN COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS AT AROUND 550
PM.
 
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO
NORTHERN LORAIN AND SOUTHERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 6 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...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.
 
SJN

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

Local storm report, Aug 27, 5:18 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
CLELSRTOL

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
520 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992

STORM REPORT FOR AFTERNOON OF THURSDAY AUGUST 27 1992

HANCOCK COUNTY 430 PM ONE-INCH SIZE HAIL 1 MILE EAST OF VANLUE
REPORT FROM HANCOCK COUNTY SHERIFF
......................................................................

WAYNDOT COUNTY 500 PM EDT TREES DOWN EAST OF UPPER SANDUSKY ON
CO. RD. 134 BETWEEN UPPER SANDUSKY AND NEVADA...REPORT FROM WYANDOT
COUNTY SHERIFF

MURPHY
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 5:27 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
OHZ004-007-272225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
525 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992

SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO SUMMIT COUNTY
THIS LATE AFTERNOON.

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EXTREME SOUTHWEST SUMMIT
COUNTY TO EASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY. SOME OF THESE STORMS CONTAINED HEAVY
RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND BRIEF HIGH WINDS. ONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCED WIND TO 60 MPH AS IT PASSED THROUGH ASHLAND EARLIER THIS
AFTERNOON.

BE ON THE ALERT IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO
WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

DEGAN

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, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne57 min
Aug 27, 6:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.