Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1994, 5:06 PM EDT for Monroe County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1994, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1994, 5:36 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 525 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAK 152112 COR SVRCAK OHC111-152215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 506 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...MONROE COUNTY AT 503 EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PITTSBURG INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEAST MONROE COUNTY MOVING EAST AROUND 25 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. JOLLY ...CORRECTED DIRECTION THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING...
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 15, 1:39 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-151840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 138 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 122 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF A COLUMBUS...COSHOCTON...EAST LIVERPOOL...BUTLER PENNSYLVANIA LINE MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THE HEAVY RAINS IN THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING AND STANDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 35 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:06 PM EDT, 3 hours before
OHZ039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-151905- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 205 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 153 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF A COLUMBUS...COSHOCTON...EAST LIVERPOOL...BUTLER PENNSYLVANIA LINE MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ALONG A ZANESILLE...CAMBRIDGE...STEUBENVILLE LINE. THE HEAVY RAINS IN THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING AND STANDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVHE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 35 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-152000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 255 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 248 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF A COLUMBUS...COSHOCTON... STEUBENVILLE...BUTLER PENNSYLVANIA LINE MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER MUSKINGUM...GUERNSEY AND BELMONT COUNTIES. THE HEAVY RAINS IN THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING AND STANDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:14 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-152110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 408 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 353 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF A COLUMBUS...CAMBRIDGE... WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA...PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA LINE MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY NORTHEAST TO SOUTHEASTERN BELMONT COUNTY. THE HEAVY RAINS IN THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING AND STANDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTMEPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. " IK ...ADDED MISSING WORDS TO LAST PARAGRAPH...
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:02 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-152205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 501 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT 450 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MONROE AND EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES. SHOWERS WERE ALONG AND TO THE EAST OF AN ATHENS...ZANESVILLE...FREEPORT LINE. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MPH. THE HEAVY RAINS IN THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING AND STANDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTMEPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 45 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK
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.