Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1992, 6:10 PM EDT for Hancock County, Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 1992, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 1992, 6:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, OH, Seneca County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOL 052216 COR SVRTOL OHC147-063-052300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING..CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 610 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...SENECA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...HANCOCK COUNTY AT 608 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDCIATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR ARCADIA IN NORTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN SENECA COUNTY BY 630 PM. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF FOSTORIA IN SENECA COUNTY AS IT MOVES INTO THAT COUNTY. 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. HUGHES $$ CORRECTED TO CHANGE FULTON TO HANCOCK COUNTY IN SECOND LINE
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, Sep 5, 5:10 PM EDT, 1 hour before
OHZ001-002-011-052230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 508 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENINGON. AT 505 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHWEST FROM WESTERN LAKE ERIE THROUGH WOOD AND SANDUSKY COUNTIES INTO PUTNAM AND HANCOCK COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE WESTERN HALF OF HANCOCK COUNTY ...ONE NEAR BENTON RIDGE...5 MILES WEST OF FINDLAY...AND THE OTHER ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FINDLAY IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HANCOCK COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AROUND 25 MPH AND BY 6 PM WILL EXTEND FROM VAN BUREN...7 MILES NORTHEAST OF FINDLAY...TO WILLIAMSTOWN...11 MILES SOUTH OF FINDLAY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROCHES...TAKE SHELTER INDOORS. ALSO HEAVY BRAINS CAN CAUSE PONDING ON HIGHWAYS AND SHARPLY REDUCED VISIBILITY SO MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING THIS EVENING. HUGHES
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 5:16 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-052230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 508 PM EDT SAT SEP 5 1992 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 505 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHWEST FROM WESTERN LAKE ERIE THROUGH WOOD AND SANDUSKY COUNTIES INTO PUTNAM AND HANCOCK COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE WESTERN HALF OF HANCOCK COUNTY ...ONE NEAR BENTON RIDGE...5 MILES WEST OF FINDLAY...AND THE OTHER ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FINDLAY IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HANCOCK COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AROUND 25 MPH AND BY 6 PM WILL EXTEND FROM VAN BUREN...7 MILES NORTHEAST OF FINDLAY...TO WILLIAMSTOWN...11 MILES SOUTH OF FINDLAY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROCHES...TAKE SHELTER INDOORS. PALSO HEAVY RAINS CAN CAUSE PONDING ON HIGHWAYS AND SHARPLY REDUCED VISIBILITY SO MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING THIS EVENING. HUGHES CORRECTED SPELLING SECOND LINE
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.