Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1993, 4:19 PM EDT for Putnam County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1993, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1993, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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
- 453 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOL 082020 SVRTOL OHC137-082115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 419 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 420 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF CONTINENTAL...ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF OTTAWA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE CITY OF OTTAWA BY 430 PM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ELH
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, Jun 8, 2:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
OHZ002-003-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 233 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD REDEVELOPED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO. AT 235 PM...RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST EAST OF CLEVELAND...SOUTHWEST THROUGH MEDINA COUNTY INTO WAYNE COUNTY. OTHER STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CUYAHOGA COUNTY. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE MEDINA/WAYNE COUNTY LINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY WHICH PRODUCED SOME STREET FLOODING AND FLOODED YARDS. THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE ANTICIPATED THAT MAY PRODUCE SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND STREET FLOODING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
OHZ002-003-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 233 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD REDEVELOPED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO. AT 235 PM...RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST EAST OF CLEVELAND...SOUTHWEST THROUGH MEDINA COUNTY INTO WAYNE COUNTY. OTHER STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CUYAHOGA COUNTY. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE MEDINA/WAYNE COUNTY LINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY WHICH PRODUCED SOME STREET FLOODING AND FLOODED YARDS. THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE ANTICIPATED THAT MAY PRODUCE SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND STREET FLOODING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
OHZ004-007-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 347 PM EDT TUE JUN 08 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. SOME ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME STREET FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN MACEDONIA IN NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY AROUND 230PM. MACEDONIA POLICE REPORT NO WIND DAMAGE WITH THE STORMS. AT 240PM RADAR INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTAGE COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. ALTO
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:41 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
OHZALL-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 341 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE COLUMBUS...LIMA...DAYTON... SANDUSKY...FINDLAY...TOLEDO...AKRON...CANTON...STEUBENVILLE... YOUNGSTOWN...MANSFIELD...AND MARIETTA. AT 335 PM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR YOUNGSTOWN...WEST TO JUST EAST OF CLEVELAND AND THEN SOUTH THROUGH MEDINA COUNTY TO NEAR WOOSTER IN WAYNE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON OVER A LARGE PORTION OF OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH WILL CAUSE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:41 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
OHZALL-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 341 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE COLUMBUS...LIMA...DAYTON... SANDUSKY...FINDLAY...TOLEDO...AKRON...CANTON...STEUBENVILLE... YOUNGSTOWN...MANSFIELD...AND MARIETTA. AT 335 PM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR YOUNGSTOWN...WEST TO JUST EAST OF CLEVELAND AND THEN SOUTH THROUGH MEDINA COUNTY TO NEAR WOOSTER IN WAYNE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON OVER A LARGE PORTION OF OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH WILL CAUSE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:47 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
OHZ004-007@-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 347 PM EDT TUE JUN 08 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. SOME ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME STREET FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN MACEDONIA IN NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY AROUND 230PM. MACEDONIA POLICE REPORT NO WIND DAMAGE WITH THE STORMS. AT 240PM RADAR INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTAGE COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE THUNDS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. ALTO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Monroe | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 3:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Harrison, Jefferson | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Putnam | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana, Mahoning | 63 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.