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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 12, 1992Ottawa County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1992, 5:24 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 1992, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ottawa County, OH, Wood County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 12, 5:28 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Ottawa, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 122127
SVRTOL
OHC123-173-122215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
ISSUED BY CLEVELAND OH
524 PM EDT SUN JUL 12 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
 
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY
 
A 520 PM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
EASTERN LUCAS COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. IT WILL BE MOVING ACROSS
NORTHERN WOOD AND INTO OTTAWA COUNTY.
 
AROUND 515 THE TOLEDO AIRPORT HAD WINDS AROUND 65 MPH AND ONE AND
QUARTER INCH HAIL
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS@... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	59 min
Jul 12, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Fulton	53 min
Jul 12, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	45 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lucas	13 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Wood	58 min
Jul 12, 6:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ottawa	67 min
Jul 12, 6:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Sandusky	65 min
Jul 12, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	56 min
Jul 12, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.