Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 6:28 PM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1992, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huron County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 182226 SVRCLE OHC077-182330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 628 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...HURON COUNTY AT 625 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SMALL CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN SENECA AND WESTERN HURON COUNTIES. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF NORWALK...AND MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THE CITIES OF NORWALK...MONROEVILLE AND WAKEMAN ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH TORE OFF A BUILDING ROOF IN CENTRAL SENECA COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 600 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAxN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO 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, Jun 18, 3:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 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, 1 hour 46 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
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:51 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
OHZALL-182300- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 550 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST-CENTRAL OHIO AND SENECA COUNTY IN NORTH-CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 630 PM EDT. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR LAKE ERIE WEST OF CLEVELAND UNTIL 730 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EDT TONIGHT. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 530 PM EDT SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST THIRD OF OHIO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR TIFFIN IN SENECA COUNTY WHERE THE WARNING IS IN EFFECT...IN PUTNAM COUNTY NEAR OTTAWA AND IN LOGAN COUNTY WHERE A WARNING IS IN EFFECT. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN LOGAN AND SENECA COUNTIES CONTAIN ESPECIALLY HEAVY RAINS AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH TIFFIN AND WEST LIBERTY BEFORE 630 PM. PERSONS IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SUNNY SKIES STILL PREVAILED OVER MUCH OF THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING...BUT THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT AND SOME OF THEM MAY BE SEVERE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER SITUATION. DEB
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:22 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
PAZ001>004-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 617 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 615 PM SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG IN INTENSITY...FORMING FROM NEAR BRADFORD SOUTH TO CLEARFIELD. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SOUTHERN LAKE HURON SOUTH TO LORAIN OHIO. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL APPROACH THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE AFTER 9PM THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LAMBERT
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, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 63 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.