Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1992, 3:34 PM EDT for Coshocton County, Guernsey County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1992, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1992, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 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 KCAK 051933 SVRCAK OHC031-059-052030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 334 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...COSHOCTON COUNTY...GUERNSEY COUNTY AT 325 THE COSHOCTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN MANY SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO GUERNSEY COUNTY ABOUT 4 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. RLB
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, Jul 5, 1:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
OHZ004-007-051845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 140 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND INTENSE LIGHTNING WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 135 PM EDT AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOOSTER...AND ACROSS CENTRAL SUMMIT COUNTY OVER THE CITY OF AKRON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. BY 230 PM THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF PORTAGE AND STARK COUNTIES. VERY HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AND PEOPLE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. THOMPSO
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:48 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
OHZ004-007-052000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 245 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND INTENSE LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WERE MOVING THROUGH EASTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 240 PM EDT AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR MOUNT VERNON TO JUST NORTH OF DOVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. AT 135 PM THE BERLIN FIRE DEPARTMENT IN HOLMES COUNTY REPORTED 1 INCH OF RAIN IN 20 MINUTES... ONE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WINDS ESTIMATED AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS HOLMES...COSHOCTON AND TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES OF EASTERN OHIO BETWEEN THE CURRENT TIME AND 4 PM. VERY HEAVY RAINS...WINDS TO 50 MPH...AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BRIEF PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORTMS SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER INDOORS AS THE THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:52 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
OHZ004-007-052000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 245 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND INTENSE LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WERE MOVING THROUGH EASTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 240 PM EDT AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR MOUNT VERNON TO JUST NORTH OF DOVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. AT 235 PM THE BERLIN FIRE DEPARTMENT IN HOLMES COUNTY REPORTED 1 INCH OF RAIN IN 20 MINUTES... ONE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WINDS ESTIMATED AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS HOLMES...COSHOCTON AND TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES OF EASTERN OHIO BETWEEN THE CURRENT TIME AND 4 PM. VERY HEAVY RAINS...WINDS TO 50 MPH...AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BRIEF PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE ZSTORMS SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER INDOORS AS THE THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THOMPSON ...CORRECTED FOR TIME...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 11:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Fulton | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 12:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Fulton | 28 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.