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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 27, 1994Hancock County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 11:34 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1994, 11:34 PM EDT (03:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1994, 12:15 AM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Hancock County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1994-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1994-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 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 
WUUS1 KTOL 290335
SVRCLE
OHC063-280415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1134 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
 
   ...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 1133 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST HANCOCK COUNTY. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL REACH THE FINDLAY AREA AROUND
1145 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
MURPHY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton45 min
Jun 27, 9:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas50 min
Jun 28, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa52 min
Jun 28, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry46 min
Jun 28, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca46 min
Jun 28, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron68 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.