Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1994, 2:28 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1994, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1994, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCLE 241830 RRA SVRCLE OHC035-241915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 228 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 225 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAT AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL...NICKEL SIZE WAS REPORTEED WITH THIS STORM AT 225 PM NORTH OF CLEVELAND HOPKINS AIRPORT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. &
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 24, 1:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PAZ001-002-242100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 105 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... UNSTABLE AIR IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT HAS LEAD TO RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER IF NECESSARY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST RADAR REPORTS...STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SANDSTROM
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 1:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PAZ001-002-242100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 105 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... UNSTABLE AIR IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT HAS LEAD TO RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER IF NECESSARY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST RADAR REPORTS...STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SANDSTROM
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 2:17 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
OHZ005>008-016>018-027-241930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 217 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 1994 THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 215 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ERIE COUNTY TO NORTHWEST SENECA COUNTY AND THEN INTO NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CONTINENTAL IN PUTNAM COUNTY...ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF OTTAWA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE INSIDE WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES DURING THUNDERSTORMS. BARNES
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 2:25 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
OHZ003>032-242000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 225 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 1994 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 220 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY...THROUGH THE GREATER CLEVELAND AREA...THROUGH ELYRIA IN LORAIN COUNTY AND WEST INTO CENTRAL ERIE COUNTY AND WEST TO NORTHWEST OF FINDLAY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD BE SOUTH OF ELYRIA AND SOUTH OF THE GREATER CLEVELAND AREA BY 4 PM. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN HAVE BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS... WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NECESSARY. KIELTYKA
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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.