Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1994, 5:32 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1994, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summit County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 7, 3:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
OHZ028-029-030-037-047-072015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH 312 PM EDT THU JUL 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... AT 305 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING SOUTHWESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF BUCYRUS...GALION...AND CRESTLINE DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YfOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. BLONDIN NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
OHZ023-033-041-PAZ007-013-072000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 326 PM EDT THU JUL 7 1994 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 325 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA TO CLEVELAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY BY 330 PM EDT AND NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY BY 415 PM EDT. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST. RESIDENTS OF THE MAHONING AND SHENANGO VALLEYS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS... LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
OHZ023-033-041-PAZ007-013-072000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 326 PM EDT THU JUL 7 1994 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 325 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA TO CLEVELAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY BY 330 PM EDT AND NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY BY 415 PM EDT. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST. RESIDENTS OF THE MAHONING AND SHENANGO VALLEYS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS... LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
OHZ021-022-072030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 335 PM EDT THU JUL 7 1994 THUNDERSTORMS PACKING HEAVY RAINS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR AT 330 PM INDICATED A STRONG STORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OF BATH AND ANOTHER NEAR BOSTON HEIGHTS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD TWINSBURG AND WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS TO ABOUT 40 MPH AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. RLB
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
OHZ021-022-072030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 335 PM EDT THU JUL 7 1994 THUNDERSTORMS PACKING HEAVY RAINS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR AT 330 PM INDICATED A STRONG STORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OF BATH AND ANOTHER NEAR BOSTON HEIGHTS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD TWINSBURG AND WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS TO ABOUT 40 MPH AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. RLB
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:10 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
PAZ001>006-008>011-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 500 PM EDT THU JUL 07 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 10 PM EDT... ...SLOW MOVING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 500 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING UP TO ONE-INCH OF RAINFALL IN A ONE- HOUR PERIOD WERE OCCURRING OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA... FROM NEAR MT JEWETT...IN MCKEAN COUNTY EAST TO NEAR COUDERSPORT IN POTTER COUNTY. OTHER SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHERN WARREN COUNTY TO THE NORTH OF YOUNGSVILLE AND WARREN AND ALSO OVER EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY...EAST OF CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ONLY 10 TO 15 MPH. RAINFALL HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLOODING MAY OCCUR FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS ...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ALONG WITH DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING. BE ON THE ALERT FOR FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL...AND NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS OR RAPIDLY FLOWING STREAMS SINCE THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY. KEEP TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. BCL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 10:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 12:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 4:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Belmont, Monroe | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 51 min |
| Jul 7, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 51 min |
| Jul 7, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 56 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.