Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 5:40 AM EDT for Huron County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 5:40 AM EDT (09:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Huron County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 513 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 270941 SVRCLE OHC077-093-271045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 540 AM EDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...HURON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...LORAIN COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND AT 540 AM EDT SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WAKEMAN IN HURON MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. IT WILL BE MOVING OVER OBERLIN AND GRAFTON AND LAGRANGE BY 630 AM EDT. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. DEB
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, Apr 26, 11:51 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
OHZALL-270500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1150 PM EDT TUE APR 26 1994 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO INCLUDING THE CITIES OF TOLEDO AND DEFIANCE UNTIL 4 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING. OHIO COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE DEFIANCE...FULTON...HENRY... LUCAS...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT...WILLIAMS AND WOOD. AT 1145 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN INDIANAPOLIS SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STILL MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH FROM WEST-CENTRAL INDIANA UP ACROSS SOUTH BEND INTO LOWER MICHIGAN. SOME OF THE STORMS ALONG THE INDIANA-MICHIGAN BORDER NEAR LAKE MICHIGAN WERE SEVERE. IF THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARD OHIO AT THE SAME SPEED THEY nWILL REACH THE WATCH THE WATCH AREA BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AM. RESIDENTS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 12:57 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
OHZALL-270600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1255 AM EDT WED APR 27 1994 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO INCLUDING THE CITIES OF TOLEDO AND DEFIANCE UNTIL 4 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING. OHIO COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE DEFIANCE...FULTON...HENRY... LUCAS...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT...WILLIAMS AND WOOD. AT 1250 AM DOPPLER RADAR IN INDIANAPOLIS SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STILL MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH FROM WEST-CENTRAL INDIANA UP ACROSS SOUTH BEND INTO LOWER MICHIGAN. SOME OF THE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THEY MOVED THROUGH INDIANA. THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARD OHIO AND SHOULD REACH THE WATCH AREA BY 3 AM EDT. RESIDENTS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 2:01 AM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
OHZALL-270700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 200 AM EDT WED APR 27 1994 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO INCLUDING THE CITIES OF TOLEDO AND DEFIANCE UNTIL 4 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING. OHIO COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE DEFIANCE...FULTON...HENRY... LUCAS...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT...WILLIAMS AND WOOD. AT 155 AM DOPPLER RADARS IN INDIANAPOLIS AND CLEVELAND INDICATED THAT SOME SHOWERS HAD MOVED INTO THE WATCH AREA OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO AFTER 130 AM. HOWEVER...THE MORE SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF THEM SEVERE...WERE STILL IN NORTHEASTERN INDIANA MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MPH. WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR AREAS NEAR FORT WAYNE BEFORE 2 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE WATCH AREA BY 3 AM AND ARE BEING WATCHED CLOSELY. RESIDENTS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS DURING THE PRE-DAWN HOURS. DEB
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 2:35 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005-006-016-270800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 234 AM EDT WED APR 27 1994 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 4 AM EDT. COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE...DEFIANCE...FULTON...HENRY... LUCAS...PAULDING...PUTNAM...VAN WERT...WILLIAMS...AND WOOD. AT 230 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF DETROIT SOUTHWEST THROUGH WILLIAMS COUNTY OF NORTHWEST OHIO INTO NORTHEAST INDIANA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ENTERING WESTERN DEFIANCE COUNTY. BY 3 AM THE LINE OF STORMS SHOULD BE ENTERING THE TOLEDO VICINITY AND WILL EXTEND SOUTHWEST INTO PUTNAM COUNTY. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THE STORMS PRODUCED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES THROUGHOUT INDIANA AND ILLINOIS EAR^LIER WEDNESDAY EVENING AND EARLY THIS MORNING. PBM/ELH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 6:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 6:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.