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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 12, 1992Erie County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1992, 7:19 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1992, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1992-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 122320
SVRCLE
OHC043-130015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
719 PM EDT SUN JUL 12 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 715 PM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME WESTERN ERIE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST ABOUT 40 MPH.
 
THIS STORM MAY HAVE PRODUCED A TORNADO AS IT MOVED THROUGH OTTAWA
COUNTY EARLIER.  IT DID PRODUCE WINDS OF 50 MPH IN FREEMONT IN
SANDUSKY COUNTY AROUND 7 PM.
 
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton59 min
Jul 12, 4:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEFulton53 min
Jul 12, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas45 min
Jul 12, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Wood51 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELucas13 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEOttawa, Wood58 min
Jul 12, 6:23 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEOttawa67 min
Jul 12, 6:40 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESandusky65 min
Jul 12, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie, Lorain60 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.