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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 6, 1994Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 9:53 AM EDT for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1994, 9:53 AM EDT (13:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1994, 10:17 AM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 1994-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1873 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 1994-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 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
1873 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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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, Jul 6, 6:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula35 min
Jul 6, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMcKean66 min
Jul 6, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEVenango61 min
Jul 6, 4:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMcKean, Potter2 hr
Jul 6, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford58 min
Jul 6, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWarren67 min
Jul 6, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEForest, Venango66 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.