Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1994, 4:04 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1994, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1994, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summit County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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
- 949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCLE 272004 RRA SVRCLE OHC153-272100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 404 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...SUMMIT COUNTY AT 400 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN SUMMIT COUNTY JUST TO THE WEST COPLEY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL MOVE OVER THE CITY OF NORTON BY 430 PM. 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, Aug 27, 1:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-271810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 110 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 100 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF A CROOKSVILLE...CAMBRIGDE...WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER MONROE COUNTY. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 35 MPH...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND EVEN SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK ...CORRECTED HEADER AND A TYPO...
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 1:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
OH039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-271810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 110 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVLOPED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 100 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF A CROOKSVILLE...CAMBRIGDE...WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER MONROE COUNTY. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 35 MPH...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND EVEN SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 1:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-271810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 110 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 100 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF A CROOKSVILLE...CAMBRIGDE...WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER MONROE COUNTY. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 35 MPH...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND EVEN SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK h ...CORRECTED HEADER AND A TYPO...
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 2:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-049-050-058-059-068-069-076-271915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 215 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS EASTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 206 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE EAST OF A LORAIN...MINERVA...ZANESVILLE...ATHENS LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER THE CARROLL/COLUMBIANA BORDER AND ALONG THE OHIO RIVER IN SOUTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING EASTERLY AT AROUND 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 35 MPH...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND EVEN SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE SOME PONDING AND STANDING OF WATERS ON ROADWAYS. IF A STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 2:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
OHZ010>014-020>023-031>033-PAZ001>003-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 240 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. AT 240 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THAT EXTENDED WESTWARD THROUGH NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM NEAR CENTERVILLE...WEST THROUGH CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS TO JUST EAST OF CONNEAUTVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. SOME STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY WHERE THE STORMS PERSIST. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN THE CLEVELAND AREA. A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF ELYRIA IN LORAIN COUNTY...EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY TO NEAR BEDFORD. THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AND WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SOME STREET FLOODING. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 2:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
OHZ010>014-020>023-031>033-PAZ001>003-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 240 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. AT 240 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THAT EXTENDED WESTWARD THROUGH NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM NEAR CENTERVILLE...WEST THROUGH CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS TO JUST EAST OF CONNEAUTVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. SOME STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY WHERE THE STORMS PERSIST. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN THE CLEVELAND AREA. A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF ELYRIA IN LORAIN COUNTY...EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY TO NEAR BEDFORD. THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AND WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SOME STREET FLOODING. GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 66 min |
| Aug 27, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Carroll | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Tuscarawas | 63 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.