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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 26, 1994Monroe County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1994, 6:21 PM EDT for Monroe County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 1994, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 1994, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Monroe County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1961 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 262223
SVRCAK
OHC111-262315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
621 PM EDT TUE APR 26 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF
WOODSFIELD IN MONROE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 20 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.
 
 
IK

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

Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:51 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
550 PM EDT TUE APR 26 1994

STORM REPORTS FROM TUESDAY APRIL 15...

420 PM      LAKE COUNTY  3/4 INCH HAIL    SHERIFF
            PERRY

435 PM      LAKE COUNTY  3/4 INCH HAIL    LOCAL POLICE
            KIRTLAND

455 PM      ASHTABULA COUNTY  3/4 INCH HAIL   LOCAL SPOTTER
            LAKEWOOD

517 PM      ASHTABULA COUNTY  TREE DOWN ON DOG HOUSE.  UNKNOWN DAMAGE
            TO DOG HOUSE AND DOG.
            AUSTINBURG

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:02 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

OHZ068-069-262300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
600 PM EDT TUE APR 26 1994

AT 555 PM EDT AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER NOBLE COUNTY OF EASTERN OHIO. THIS
THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES WEST OF CALDWELL...MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS NOBLE AND MONROE COUNTIES...
REACHING THE OHIO RIVER NEAR CLARINGTON AROUND 7 PM.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.

PEOPLE IN NOBLE AND MONROE COUNTIES OF EASTERN OHIO SHOULD SEEK
SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES.

THOMPSON

Local storm report, Apr 26, 6:05 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
557 PM EDT TUE APR 26 1994

LOCAL STORM REPORTS FROM TUESDAY APRIL 15...

TIME (EDT)  LOCATION/SOURCE
.....................................................................
505 PM      ERIE COUNTY...3/4 INCH HAIL AND WIND GUST TO 45 MPH
            LOCAL POLICE  WEST SPRINGFIELD

530 PM      ERIE COUNTY...3/4 INCH HAIL  NEAR THE MILLCREEK MALL...
            4 SE OF ERI.
            PUBLIC AND MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP POLICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	28 min
Apr 26, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Lake	45 min

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.