Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1994, 4:05 PM EDT for Monroe County, Noble County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1994, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1994, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 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
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, Jun 21, 3:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
OHZALL-212015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON WEATHER STORY FOR OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 330 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL OHIO... A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH WERE SEVERE EXTENDED FROM NEAR CADIZ TO NORTH OF ZANESVILLE AND NEWARK AT 326 PM. THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR BY 430 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN OHIO. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE BUCKEYE STATE THIS AFTERNOON RANGED FROM NEAR 80 IN THE EXTREME NORTHEAST TO THE LOWER 90S IN THE SOUTHWEST. HUMID CONDITIONS WERE THE RULE ALONG WITH WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT THE STATE THIS EVENING AND BE FOLLOWED BY CLEARING AND SLIGHTLY COOLER CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT. ON THE WEATHER MAP THIS AFTERNOON A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHERN OHIO WESTWARD TO CENTRAL IOWA. THE FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OVERNIGHT AND EXTEND FROM SOUTHERN VIRGINIA TO CENTRAL KENTUCKY TO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. MEANWHILE...SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES. THE HIGH PRESSURE CENTER WILL BUILD ACROSS OHIO ON WEDNESDAY AND PROVIDE LESS HUMID AND SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES. LAPLANTE
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
OHZALL-212015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON WEATHER STORY FOR OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 330 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL OHIO... A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH WERE SEVERE EXTENDED FROM NEAR CADIZ TO NORTH OF ZANESVILLE AND NEWARK AT 326 PM. THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR BY 430 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN OHIO. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE BUCKEYE STATE THIS AFTERNOON RANGED FROM NEAR 80 IN THE EXTREME NORTHEAST TO THE LOWER 90S IN THE SOUTHWEST. HUMID CONDITIONS WERE THE RULE ALONG WITH WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT THE STATE THIS EVENING AND BE FOLLOWED BY CLEARING AND SLIGHTLY COOLER CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT. ON THE WEATHER MAP THIS AFTERNOON A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHERN OHIO WESTWARD TO CENTRAL IOWA. THE FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OVERNIGHT AND EXTEND FROM SOUTHERN VIRGINIA TO CENTRAL KENTUCKY TO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. MEANWHILE...SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES. THE HIGH PRESSURE CENTER WILL BUILD ACROSS OHIO ON WEDNESDAY AND PROVIDE LESS HUMID AND SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES. LAPLANTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Carroll, Tuscarawas | 58 min |
| Jun 21, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Harrison, Jefferson | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Guernsey | 66 min |
| Jun 21, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Belmont | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Noble, Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Washington | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.