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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 1993Henry County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1993, 1:08 AM EDT for Henry County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 2, 1993, 1:08 AM EDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1993, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Henry County, OH, Wood County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Aug 1, 10:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 12:45 AM EDT, 23 minutes before

OHZ001-020530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1245 AM EDT MON AUG 2 1993

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH FULTON AND HENRY COUNTIES IN
NORTHWEST OHIO.

AT 1243 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST FULTON COUNTY AND NORTHWEST HENRY
COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR RIDGEVILLE CORNERS...7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF NAPOLEON...IN HENRY COUNTY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS
EXTENDED FROM WAUSEON IN FULTON COUNTY TO NAPOLEON IN HENRY COUNTY.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR DELTA...7 MILES
EAST OF WAUSEON AND LIBERTY CENTER...7 MILES NORTHEAST OF NAPOLEON...BY
1 AM EDT.

THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 20 MPH AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

HUGHES

CORRECTED SECOND PARAGRAPH

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 12:51 AM EDT, 17 minutes before

OHZ001-020530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1245 AM EDT MON AUG 2 1993

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH FULTON AND HENRY COUNTIES IN
NORTHWEST OHIO.

AT 1243 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST FULTON COUNTY AND NORTHWEST HENRY
COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR RIDGEVILLE CORNERS...7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF NAPOLEON...IN HENRY COUNTY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS
EXTENDED FROM WAUSEON IN FULTON COUNTY TO NAPOLEON IN HENRY COUNTY.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR DELTA...7 MILES
EAST OF WAUSEON AND LIBERTY CENTER...7 MILES NORTHEAST OF NAPOLEON...BY
1 AM EDT.

THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 20 MPH AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

HUGHES

CORRECTED SECOND PARAGRAPH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 3:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	47 min
Aug 2, 4:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	32 min
Aug 2, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Columbiana	46 min
Aug 2, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lawrence	49 min
Aug 2, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Venango	59 min
Aug 2, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Warren	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.