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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 1992Huron County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 220 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 9:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton64 min
Jun 17, 10:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry58 min
Jun 17, 10:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton, Lucas55 min
Jun 17, 11:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood53 min
Jun 17, 11:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky57 min
Jun 17, 11:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPutnam57 min
Jun 18, 12:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca61 min
Jun 18, 12:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie69 min
Jun 18, 1:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Lorain55 min
Jun 18, 1:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga42 min
Jun 18, 1:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot38 min
Jun 18, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPutnam55 min
Jun 18, 5:01 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHancock44 min
Jun 18, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca63 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.