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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 1992Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 5:27 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1992, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Seneca County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOL 182142 COR
SVRTOL
OHC147-182230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
540 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

   ...SENECA COUNTY

AT 525 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
NORTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY...ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF FOSTORIA. THIS STORM
WILL ENTER WESTERN SENECA COUNTY BY 535 PM. 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 OCCASIONALL@Y DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

MURPHY
...CORRECTED ORIGINAL STORM LOCATION...THE STORM AT 540 PM
WAS OVER FOSTORIA IN WESTERN SENCECA COUNTY...

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, 1 hour 44 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

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:42 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

OHZALL-182145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
444 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR MUCH OF WESTERN
AND CENTRAL OHIO. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ROUGHLY WEST OF A
LINE FROM CLEVELAND TO NEWARK TO PORTSMOUTH.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS TORNADO WATCH ARE CLEVELAND...
TOLEDO...COLUMBUS...CINCINNATI...DAYTON...FINDLAY...AND
MANSFIELD.

THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH
WAS ISSUED EARLIER THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

AT 44O PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF DEROIT TO LIMA OHIO AND ON TO THE
CINCINNATI AREA.

THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES WITH
SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. DO NOT TAKE THE CURRENT WEATHER
SITUATION LIGHTLY...BE PREPARED.

THE LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH THE CLEVELAND
TO COLUMBUS AREA BETWEEN 800 AND 1000 PM EDT THIS EVEN'ING.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...
LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINS THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW
LYING AREA.

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, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Putnam	55 min
Jun 18, 5:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Hancock	44 min
Jun 18, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	62 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.