Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 1992, 9:01 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 1992, 9:01 PM EDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 1992, 9:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 150056 SVRCLE OHC055-150200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 901 PM EDT WED OCT 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 855 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH IN GARFIELD HEIGHTS...DOWNED TREES AND POWERLINES. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... 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.
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, Oct 14, 7:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
OHZ001-150100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 705 PM EDT WED OCT 14 1992 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS THE OHIO-MICHIGAN LINE. AT 7PM EDT WEATHER SERVCIE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST FULTON COUNTY. AT 658 PM FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED PLENTY OF SMALL HAIL...SIX INCHES DEEP IN SPOTS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH AND WILL AFFECT NORTHEAST FULTON COUNTY AS WELL AS EXTREME NORTHERN LUCAS COUNTY INCLUDING BERKEY...SYLVANIA AND NORTH TOLEDO BY 8PM EDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK SHELTER. IF YOU ARE IN YOUR CAR PULL ONTO THE SHOULDER AS VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE DANGEROUS TO ATTEMPT TO DRIVE IN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE UPDATES OR WARNINGS. ELH MURPHY
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 7:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
OHZ001-150100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 705 PM EDT WED OCT 14 1992 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS THE OHIO-MICHIGAN LINE. AT 7PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST FULTON COUNTY. AT 658 PM FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED PLENTY OF SMALL HAIL...SIX INCHES DEEP IN SPOTS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH AND WILL AFFECT NORTHEAST FULTON COUNTY AS WELL AS EXTREME NORTHERN LUCAS COUNTY INCLUDING BERKEY...SYLVANIA AND NORTH TOLEDO BY 8PM EDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK SHELTER. IF YOU ARE IN YOUR CAR PULL ONTO THE SHOULDER AS VERY HEAVY RAINS AND S MALL HAIL CAN BE DANGEROUS TO ATTEMPT TO DRIVE IN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE UPDATES OR WARNINGS. ELH (CORRECTED TYPO FIRST LINE OF TEXT) MURPHY
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 8:24 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
OHZ001-002-150200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 824 PM EDT WED OCT 14 1992 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LUCAS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. AT 815 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH MOVED ACROSS NORTHERN FULTON AND LUCAS COUNTIES OF OHIO THIS EVENING HAD MOVED OUT OVER LAKE ERIE AND WAS NEAR THE ISLANDS. THE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST AROUND 45 MPH AND WILL BE OUT OVER CENTRAL LAKE ERIE BY 9PM EDT. REPORTS OF ONE-INCH DIAMETER HAIL WERE RECEIVED FROM LUCAS COUNTY IN SYLVANIA TOWNSHIP AND THE TOWN OF CURTICE. HOWEVER...THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE. OTHER SHOWERS AND SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REDEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN AND WERE SLOWLY CROSSING INTO OHIO. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL AFFECT THE REGION THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT... BUT NONE OF THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD BE AS INTENSE AS THE EARLIER STORM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE UPDATES. ELH
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 8:29 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
PAZ001-002-150130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 820 PM EDT WED OCT 14 1992 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS APPROACHING WESTERN ERIE COUNTY... WEATHER RADAR AT 820 PM SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF CONNEAUT OHIO. THE STORM IS MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST...AND WILL MOVE JUST NORTH OF ALBION TO NEAR UNION CITY BY 915 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEEN FROM NEAR CORRY TO TITUSVILLE AND jACROSS THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF LAKE ERIE...NORTH INTO SOUTHERN ONTARIO. THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH....DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 52 min |
| Oct 15, 5:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson | 42 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.