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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 25, 1994Guernsey County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 8:27 PM EDT for Guernsey County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1994, 8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1994, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Guernsey County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
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OHC059-260130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
827 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...GUERNSEY COUNTY
 
AT 823 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR AT THE AKRON CANTON AIRPORT INDICATED A
POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN GURENSEY COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF
CAMBRIDGE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
 
MARTIN

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 25, 3:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

OHZ021-022-031-032-038-039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-252005-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
306 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN HALF OF
OHIO...GENERALLY THE AREA AROUND INTERSTATE 70 AND POINTS SOUTH
UNTIL 8 PM EDT.

AT 300 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND TO THE WEST OF A MERCER PENNSYLVANIA..SALEM
OHIO...DOVER...CAMBRIDGE...BEVERLY LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE
BETWEEN WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE AND MCCONNELSVILLE. ALL THE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH.

THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 45 MPH...VERY
HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL
LIKELY CAUSE PONDING AND STANDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND SOME
LOCALIZED FLOODING.
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IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE
STORM HAS PASSED.

IK

...CORRECTED TYPO IN SECOND PARAGRAPH...

Local storm report, Jul 25, 5:23 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
522 PM EDT MON JUL 1994

WASHINGTON COUNTY...

BUNCH OF POWER LINES AND SOME TREES DOWN DUE TO WINDS.
WIDESPREAD IN AN AREA MAINLY ALONG THE OHIO RIVER.
OCCURRING BETWEEN 1600 AND 1610 EDT.

IK

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 6:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

PAZ005-006-260045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA
639 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES POTTER COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM...

AT 635 PM ERIE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN MCKEAN
COUNTY IN THE NORTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA. THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM MT JEWETT TO NEAR PORT ALLEGENY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 6:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

PAZ005-006-260045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA
639 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES POTTER COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM...

AT 635 PM ERIE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN MCKEAN
COUNTY IN THE NORTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA. THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM MT JEWETT TO NEAR PORT ALLEGENY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN FHOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 8:20 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

OHZ0007>014-019>023-260200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
820 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NEAR THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE
COUNTIES OF OHIO THIS EVENING.

AT 825 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER THE LAKE NORTH OF HURON IN ERIE COUNTY.
THE WINDS FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL
ERIE COUNTY AND WESTERN HURON COUNTY WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH
AND WIND GUSTS FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH LORAIN
COUNTY...MAINLY THE NORTH HALF BY 9 PM EDT WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE
ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING.
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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 8:27 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
820 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NEAR THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE
COUNTIES OF OHIO THIS EVENING.

AT 825 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER THE LAKE NORTH OF HURON IN ERIE COUNTY.
THE WINDS FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL
ERIE COUNTY AND WESTERN HURON COUNTY WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH
AND WIND GUSTS FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH LORAIN
COUNTY...MAINLY THE NORTH HALF BY 9 PM EDT WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE"
ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING.
KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 8:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	27 min
Jul 25, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	48 min

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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.