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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 21, 1994Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1994, 2:27 PM EDT for Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1994, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1994-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 262 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1994-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 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 KCAK 211828
SVRCLE
OHC067-081-211930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
227 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...HARRISON COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
AT 225 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED
POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER TUSCARAWAS AND CARROLL COUNTIES
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN HARRISON
AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BY 245 PM.
 
 
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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
ALTO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECarroll, Tuscarawas58 min
Jun 21, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana42 min
Jun 21, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGuernsey66 min
Jun 21, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEBelmont55 min
Jun 21, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMonroe, Noble55 min
Jun 21, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLENoble, Washington64 min
Jun 21, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWashington57 min

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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.