Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1994, 2:34 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1994, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 251837 RRA SVRCLE OHC035-251930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 234 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY AT 235 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WAS HEADED TOWARDS PARMA AND SLIGHTLY EAST OF THE CITY OF STRONGSVILLE. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED WITH LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. END/COMEAUX
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, Sep 25, 1:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
OHZ001>033-036>037-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 110 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 105 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CLEVELAND...SOUTHWEST TO LODI IN MEDINA COUNTY TO NEAR LOUDONVILLE IN ASHLAND COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR MILAN IN ERIE COUNTY AND TO THE SOUTH OF MANSFIELD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AROUND 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POTENTIALLY LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS TO A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING AND GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 1:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
OHZ001>033-036>037-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 110 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 105 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CLEVELAND...SOUTHWEST TO LODI IN MEDINA COUNTY TO NEAR LOUDONVILLE IN ASHLAND COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR MILAN IN ERIE COUNTY AND TO THE SOUTH OF MANSFIELD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AROUND 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POTENTIALLY LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS TO A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING AND GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 7:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton | 63 min |
| Sep 25, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Putnam | 36 min |
| Sep 25, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Tuscarawas | 65 min |
| Sep 25, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 64 min |
| Sep 25, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 69 min |
| Sep 25, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 60 min |
| Sep 25, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 40 min |
| Sep 25, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 48 min |
| Sep 25, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lake | 56 min |
| Sep 25, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 45 min |
| Sep 25, 3:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 50 min |
| Sep 25, 3:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Washington | 69 min |
| Sep 25, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Tuscarawas | 69 min |
| Sep 25, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 61 min |
| Sep 25, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 47 min |
| Sep 25, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 43 min |
| Sep 25, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Carroll | 38 min |
| Sep 25, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 41 min |
| Sep 25, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 48 min |
| Sep 25, 5:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 59 min |
| Sep 25, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 34 min |
| Sep 25, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 42 min |
| Sep 25, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 29 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.