Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1992, 4:26 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1992, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1992, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lorain County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 KCLE 112027 SVRCLE OHC093-112115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 426 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...LORAIN COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 420 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE HURON/LORAIN COUNTY LINE JUST EAST OF WAKEMAN. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CITY OF OBERLIN BY 5 PM. 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. 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
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 4:18 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
OHZALL-112200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 420 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN OHIO... THANKS TO A STRONG SOUTHWEST FLOW OF WARM MOIST AIR OHIOANS EXPERIENCED NEAR SUMMER LIKE CONDITIONS TODAY. SKIES WERE MOSTLY SUNNY ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS SO FAR IN THE 70S. THE WARM TEMPERATURES AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE. THEN CLOUDS BEHIND A COLD FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF RAIN OR DRIZZLE WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS DROPPING INTO THE MIDDLE 30S ACROSS THE NORTHWEST TO NEAR 50 DEGREES IN THE EXTREME SOUTH. THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER AND GIVE SOUTHERN OHIO A CHANCE OF DRIZZLE DURING THE MORNING. OTHERWISE VARIABLE CLOUDINESS WILL BE THE RULE SUNDAY WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS IN THE 50S. CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE ACROSS THE STATE SUNDAY NIGHT AS A COOL CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM PUSHES ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES. LOWS SUNDAY NIGHT WILL BE MOSTLY IN THE 20S. DRIER ARE FROM CANADA WILL THEN PROVIDE A SUNNY DAY TO START THE WORKWEEK MONDAY WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS IN THE 50S OVER SOUTHERN OHIO AND 40 TO 50 ACROSS THE NORTH. ON THE WEATHER MAP...A COLD FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO NORTHWEST OHIO WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT TO BE SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER SUNDAY MORNING. HIGH PRESSURE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS TO THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES MONDAY. JOHNSON/KWIATKOWSKI CORRECTED TO MAKE A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 41 min |
| Apr 11, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 56 min |
| Apr 11, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 69 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.