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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 1993Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1993, 1:59 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 2, 1993, 1:59 PM EDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1993, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Columbiana County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 1605 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 6.8

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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 2, 11:29 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 1:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Henry, Wood	52 min
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, 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.