Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 1994, 3:52 PM EST for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 1994, 3:52 PM EST (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 1994, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summit County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 712 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 923 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAK 232052 SVRCAK OHC153-232145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 352 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...SUMMIT COUNTY AT 350 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DOYLESTOWN IN EXTREME NORTHEAST WAYNE COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 50 MPH. 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. IK
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, Feb 23, 1:28 PM EST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
OHZ001>006-232000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 128 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF OHIO THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. SOME CITIES AND TOWNS INCLUDED IN THE WARNING AREA ARE DEFIANCE AND TOLEDO. THE WINTER STORM WARNING FOR PAULDING...PUTNUM AND HANCOCK COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 125 PM EST...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FREEZING RAIN IN THE TOLEDO AREA. FREEZING DRIZZLE WAS STILL FALLING ACROSS A GOOD SECTION OF THE WINTER STORM WARNING AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY RISE INTO THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 30S IN THE WINTER STORM WARNING AREA AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...BRINGING AN END TO THE FREEZING PRECIPITATION. THE COMBINATION OF JUST RAIN AND TEMPERATURES ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK... WILL HOWEVER...CREATE ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS THIS AFTERNOON. FROM 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW FELL OVER NORTHWEST OHIO LAST NIGHT...THUS SNOWMELT IN COMBINATION WITH ANY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON...COULD LEAD TO FLOODING. WITH THAT IN MIND...A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST OHIO FOR THIS AFTERNOON. DEFIANCE...TOLEDO AND FINDLAY ARE ALL INCLUDED IN THE FLOOD WATCH AREA. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A SMALL CREEK OR STREAM OR IN A LOW LYING AREA...REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL OVER NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON...ALLOW SOME EXTRA TIME AND USE CAUTION. BE ALERT FOR NOT ONLY ICY AREAS...BUT ALSO FLOODED ROADWAYS. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:04 PM EST, 48 minutes before
OHZ007>014-018>020-231830 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 305 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVEPLAND INDICATES A NORTH TO SOUTH LINE OF SHOWERS 10 TO 15 MILES WIDE WILL PASS THROUGH EASTERN LORAIN COUNTY BY 315 PM AND INTO CUYAHOGA AND MEDINA COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. SMITH
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:05 PM EST, 47 minutes before
OHZ007>014-018>020-232130 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 305 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATES A NORTH TO SOUTH LINE OF SHOWERS 10 TO 15 MILES WIDE WILL PASS THROUGH EASTERN LORAIN COUNTY BY 315 PM AND INTO CUYAHOGA AND MEDINA COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. SMITH CORRECTED HEADER TIME
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:06 PM EST, 46 minutes before
OHZ007>014-018>020-232130 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 305 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATES A NORTH TO SOUTH LINE OF SHOWERS 10 TO 15 MILES WIDE WILL PASS THROUGH EASTERN LORAIN COUNTY BY 315 PM AND INTO CUYAHOGA AND MEDINA COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. $$X SMITH CORRECTED HEADER TIME
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:30 PM EST, 22 minutes before
OHZ001>006-015>017-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 330 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE WINTER STORM WARNING FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS ALSO BEEN CANCELLED. AT 330 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. NO SIGNIFICANT RAIN REMAINED OVER NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME LIGHT RAIN WILL LINGER OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW BY MIDNIGHT. THE SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE ABOUT AN INCH LATER TONIGHT. KOSARIK
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:35 PM EST, 17 minutes before
OHZ001>006-015>017-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 330 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE WINTER STORM WARNING FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS ALSO BEEN CANCELLED. AT 330 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. NO SIGNIFICANT RAIN REMAINED OVER NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME LIGHT RAIN WILL LINGER OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW BY MIDNIGHT. THE SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE ABOUT AN INCH LATER TONIGHT. KOSARIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 49 min |
| Feb 23, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 43 min |
| Feb 23, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Carroll, Jefferson | 44 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.