Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1992, 4:21 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1992, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1992, 5:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1190 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAK 162022 SVRCAK OHC133-162130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 421 PM EDT THU APR 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...PORTAGE COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RAVENNA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. 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 SHJOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. BROOKYV
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, Apr 16, 2:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
OHZALL-162000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 235 PM EDT THU APR 16 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHWEST HALF OF OHIO AND THE WESTERN HALF OF LAKE ERIE UNTIL 9 PM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE CLEVELAND...TOLEDO...MANSFIELD... ...FINDLAY...DAYTON...AND CINCINNATI. WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS SITUATED OVER WESTERN OHIO THURSDAY AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL DAYTIME HEATING AND THE APPROACH OF A COLD FRONT FROM THE WEST WILL BE ENOUGH TO CREATE A THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA UNTIL 9 PM EDT. AT 230 PM EDT THERE WERE NO ORGANIZED CLUSTERS OR GROUPS OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA. ONLY SOME SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS WERE LOCATED AROUND CINCINNATI. THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER MOST OF OHIO. THE TREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF OHIO. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINS THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION AND STATEMENTS. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. KAPELA
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 315 PM EDT THU APR 16 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO... INCLUDING THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES...UNTIL 9PM EDT. AT 310 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEWLY-DEVELOPED LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM ABOUT SAGINAW MICHIGAN SOUTHWEST TO JUST EAST OF JACKSON AND ACROSS WILLIAMS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO TO TEN MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE MOSTLY OVER SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER FULTON AND DEFIANCE COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST BY 330 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND WARNINGS. ELH
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:23 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 315 PM EDT THU APR 16 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO... INCLUDING THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES...UNTIL 9PM EDT. AT 310 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEWLY-DEVELOPED LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM ABOUT SAGINAW MICHIGAN SOUTHWEST TO JUST EAST OF JACKSON AND ACROSS WILLIAMS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO TO TEN MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE MOSTLY OVER SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER FULTON AND DEFIANCE COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO BY 330 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND WARNINGS. ELH (CORRECTED TO ADD OHIO TO PARAGRAPH 3 LINE 2)
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:29 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 329 PM EDT THU APR 16 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO... INCLUDING THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES...UNTIL 9PM EDT. AT 310 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEWLY-DEVELOPED LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM ABOUT SAGINAW MICHIGAN SOUTHWEST TO JUST EAST OF JACKSON AND ACROSS WILLIAMS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO TO TEN MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT WAYNE. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE MOSTLY OVER SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER FULTON AND DEFIANCE COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO BY 330 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND WARNINGS. ELH (CORRECTED FOR NEW TRANSMISSION TIME)
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:34 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
OHZALL-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 335 PM EDT THU APR 16 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHWEST HALF OF OHIO AND THE WESTERN HALF OF LAKE ERIE UNTIL 9 PM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE CLEVELAND...TOLEDO...MANSFIELD... ...FINDLAY...DAYTON...AND CINCINNATI. AT 330 PM EDT WIDELY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FOUND OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF OHIO. ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM AT 330 PM EDT WAS LOCATED OVER THE NEARSHORE OF LAKE ERIE JUST NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND. THE MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WILL KEEP IT JUST OFF THE SHORELINE BETWEEN CLEVELAND AND FAIRPORT HARBOR THROUGH 430 PM. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IN THIS NEARSHORE AREA. OTHER THUNDERSTORM CLUSTERS AT 330 PM WERE LOCATED AROUND MANSFIELD... AND 30 MILES WEST OF TOLEDO. ONLY RAINSHOWERS WERE FOUND AROUND CINCINNATI. THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER MOST OF OHIO. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS CONCENTRATED OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF OHIO. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINS THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION AND STATEMENTS. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF TgHREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. KAPELA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Putnam | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 31 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.