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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 11, 1992Lorain County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-04-11Temperature 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 1992-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca41 min
Apr 11, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake56 min
Apr 11, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula69 min

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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.