Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1994, 4:10 AM EST for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 1994, 4:10 AM EST (09:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1994, 4:45 AM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 010911 RRA SVRCLE OHC035-OHZ501-010945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 410 AM EST TUE NOV 1 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 410 AM EST NWS DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY JUST NORTHEAST OF PARMA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF CLEVELAND AND THE EAST SUBURBS THROUGH 445 AM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. G<ERARD
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, Nov 1, 12:43 AM EST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-010645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1243 AM EST TUE NOV 1 1994 SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 1240 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN LORAIN...EASTERN HURON...AND NORTHERN RICHLAND AND ASHLAND COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF MANSFIELD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH...AND THE STRONGEST STORMS SHOULD MOVE ACROSS LORAIN AND EASTERN HURON COUNTIES BETWEEN 1245 AND 115 AM EST. A LINE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO ACROSS PORTIONS OF OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...AND SENECA COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ERIE AND NORTHERN HURON COUNTIES AND OUT INTO THE WESTERN BASIN OF LAKE ERIE BY 130 AM. FINALLY...A BAND OF SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ACROSS WESTERN OHIO FROM LIMA TO EAST OF CINCINNATI. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST INTO PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO BY 2 AM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GERARD
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 1:38 AM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>010-017>019-027>030-036-037-047-010740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 138 AM EST TUE NOV 1 1994 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO. AT 135 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY INTO SOUTHWEST WYANDOT AND EXTREME NORTHWEST MARION COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS WYANDOT AND EASTERN HANCOCK COUNTIES AND MOVE INTO SENECA COUNY BY AROUND 2 AM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GERARD
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 1:38 AM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>010-017>019-027>030-036-037-047-010740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 138 AM EST TUE NOV 1 1994 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO. AT 135 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY INTO SOUTHWEST WYANDOT AND EXTREME NORTHWEST MARION COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS WYANDOT AND EASTERN HANCOCK COUNTIES AND MOVE INTO SENECA COUNY BY AROUND 2 AM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 18 min |
| Nov 1, 2:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 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.