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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 11, 1993Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1993, 6:41 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1993, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1993, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1993-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 672 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1993-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KTOL 112242
SVRCLE
OHC173-112315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
641 PM EDT SUN JUL 11 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
 
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTH FROM TOLEDO TO TEN MILES NORTH
OF FINDLAY IN WOOD COUNTY.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR BOWLING GREEN.
 
THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.  BY 7 PM EDT THE LINE WILL EXTEND FROM
OREGON IN LUCAS COUNTY TO FOSTORIA IN SENECA COUNTY.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
MWD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPutnam43 min
Jul 11, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot33 min
Jul 11, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie60 min
Jul 11, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron66 min

Nearby

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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.