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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 28, 1993Washington County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1993, 4:14 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1993, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1993, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2220 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 KCAK 282015
SVRCAK
OHC167-282100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
414 PM EDT SAT AUG 28 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 410 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR BEVERLY OHIO IN NORTHWEST WASHINGTON COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERtE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
THOMPSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 1:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie59 min
Aug 28, 2:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron39 min
Aug 28, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWashington40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1993Every 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.