Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 4:20 PM EDT for Putnam County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1992, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 KTOL 182020 SVRTOL OHC137-182115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 420 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 420 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COLUMBUS GROVE...6 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALER'T TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. MURPHY
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, Jun 18, 3:43 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
OHZALL-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 342 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ABOUT THE WESTERN HALF OF OHIO UNTIL 900 PM EDT. THIS WATCH COVERS THE AREA WEST OF A LINE FROM SANDUSKY TO COLUMBUS TO HILSBORO....INCLUDING THE ADJACENT PART OF LAKE ERIE. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE CINCINNATI...COLUMBUS...DAYTON... SPRINGFIELD...FINDLAY...TOLEDO...LIMA...AND SANDUSKY. AT 340 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND FILLING IN FROM NEAR FLINT MICHIGAN TO VAN WERT OHIO TO LOUSIVILLE KENTUCKY. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MARCH EAST THROUGH OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. < SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS... AND HEAVY RAINS THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. PEOPLE SHOULD MONITOR THEIR NEWS MEDIA OUTLETS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KAPELA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 64 min |
| Jun 17, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton, Lucas | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 11:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 11:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Putnam | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 12:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 12:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 69 min |
| Jun 18, 1:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 1:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 1:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 63 min |
| Jun 18, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.