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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 9, 1992Fulton County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1992, 9:31 PM EDT for Fulton County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 1992, 9:31 PM EDT (01:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1992, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Fulton County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 00:00Z on 1992-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 46 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 00:00Z on 1992-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 318 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
46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
294 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 KTOL 100131
SVRTOL
OHC051-100200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
931 PM EDT WED SEP 9 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE STATE OF OHIO
      FULTON

AT 928 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY OR ABOUT FIVE MILES
NORTH OF WAUSEON.  THIS STORM COULD CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVTE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

 ELH

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 9, 6:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
PAZ001-002-100000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
630 PM EDT WED SEP 09 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...
...INCLUDING ERIE..CRAWFORD AND VENANGO COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM...

AT 600 PM RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE CITY OF ERIE
SOUTHWARD TO EDINBORO IN SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY.  THESE ARE PART OF A LARGER
AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM ERIE COUNTY SOUTHWARD INTO
CRAWFORD COUNTY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH ARE CAUSING FLOODING ALONG ROADWAYS AND OTHER
POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

PARRISH/LAMBERT
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 7:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-100100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
713 PM EDT WED SEP 09 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 1000 PM
EDT.

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE OVER NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING.
AT 712 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER PUTNAM AND HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO.
BY 720 PM EDT THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AFFECTING THE CITY OF MCCOMB
...10 MILES NORTHWEST OF FINDLAY...AND NORTH BALTIMORE...13 MILES TO
THE SOUTH OF BOWLING GREEN.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING.

BARNES
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 7:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-100100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
719 PM EDT WED SEP 09 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 1000 PM
EDT.

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE OVER NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING.
AT 712 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER PUTNAM AND HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO.
BY 720 PM EDT THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AFFECTING THE CITY OF MCCOMB
...10 MILES NORTHWEST OF FINDLAY...AND NORTH BALTIMORE...13 MILES TO
THE SOUTH OF BOWLING GREEN...IN WOOD COUNTY.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING.

BARNES (CORRECTED LOCATION)
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 8:43 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
OHZALL-100200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
845 PM EDT WED SEP 9 1992

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND MUCH OF THE CENTRAL
SECTIONS OF OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT.

THUNDERSTORMS DECREASED IN INTENSITY BETWEEN 745 PM AND 845 PM THIS
EVENING. AS OF 845 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT IN OHIO.
THUNDERSTORMS STILL COVERED MUCH OF NORTH-CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN OHIO
MAINLY NORTH OF A FINDLAY-AKRON-YOUNGSTOWN LINE. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY
MOVED INTO PENNSYLVANIA BY 830 PM.

HOWEVER...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR AT 830 PM JUST
NORTH OF FINDLAY. IT WILL MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST ACROSS FOSTORIA..AND
FREEMONT AND POSSIBLY INTO SANDUSKY BAY BY 10 PM. THE MOVEMENT WAS
NEARLY 50 MPH.

HEAVY RAINS WERE STILL FALLING FROM MANY OF THE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS AND OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE DURING
THE NIGHT. THIS HAS PROMPTED THE WEATHER SERVICE TO ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH
WHICH WILL BE IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT IN THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE.

PORTIONS OF ALLEN COUNTY REPORTEDLY HAD NEARLY 4 INCHES OF RAIN EARLIER
TONIGHT WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD AND MANY REPORTS OF MORE THAN AN INCH
REACHED THE WEATHETR SERVICE IN NORTHERN OHIO.

PERSONS IN THE TORNADO OR FLOOD WATCH AREAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT
FOR ANY THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION
IF FURTHER WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.

DEB
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 8:54 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-100230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
855 PM EDT WED SEP 09 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 1000
PM EDT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST OHIO TONIGHT.

AT 853 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO.
BY 900 PM EDT THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER THE CITY OF FOSTORIA...
13 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST OF TIFFIN IN SENECA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS
PRODUCING PEA SIZED HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS.

MOVEMENT OF THE THE THUNDERSTORM WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING OVER HILLSDALE COUNTY
IN SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN...TO HUNTINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST

INDIANA. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR WATER
PONDING ON ROADWAYS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING WHEN A
THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

BARNES
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 9:09 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
OHZ004-007-100230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
905 PM EDT WED SEP  9 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND MUCH OF THE CENTRAL
SECTIONS OF OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. ALL OF NORTHEAST OHIO AND THE
CENTRAL COUNTIES NORTH OF I-70. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR MERCER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.

WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 900 PM INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM
THE AKRON AREA EAST TO NEAR YOUNGSTOWN. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL
OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SUMMIT AND PORTAGE
COUNTIES. PONDING OF WATER IS LIKELY OVER LOW LYING AREAS AND STREETS
IN THESE AREA... AND CAUTION IS ADVISED. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER
HAVE BEEN RECEIVED DURING THE LAST HOUR. RADAR INDICATES THE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY SINCE 800 PM.

PERSONS IN THE TORNADO WATCH SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH OR A WARNING BE ISSUED.

ALTO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 11:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWayne5 hr

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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.