Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 27, 1994, 11:34 PM EST for Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 27, 1994, 11:34 PM EST (04:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 28, 1994, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, OH, Wood County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 909 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1063 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 280436 RRA SVRCLE OHC063-173-280515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1134 PM EST SUN NOV 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...HANCOCK COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY AT 1135 PM EST DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN PUTNAM COUNTY NORTHEAST OF OTTAWA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE MCCOMB...DEWEYVILLE...HOYTVILLE AND NORTH BALTIMORE. THIS STORM PRODUCED WINDS OF OVER 60 MPH IN COLUMBUS GROVE IN PUTNAM COUNTY. 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.6 DIEFENDERFER &
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 27, 7:25 PM EST, 4 hours 9 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 725 PM EST SUN NOV 27 1994 A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA TONIGHT. DEEP LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHEAST IOWA THAT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST WAS CAUSING THE VERY STRONG WINDS IN OHIO THIS EVENING. SINCE 5 PM SOME OF THE STRONGEST WINDS HAVE BEEN OVER NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. AROUND 6 PM THE WINDS GUSTED TO 52 MPH AT THE LOST NATION AIRPORT IN WILLOUGHBY AN EASTERN SUBURB OF CLEVELAND. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES AND POWERLINES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN MAINLY FROM CLEVELAND EAST SINCE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW TREES WERE DOWN IN HARBORCREEK...NORTHEAST OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA AND AT LEAST 4 REPORTS OF TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN IN CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYVLANIA SINCE LATE AFTERNOON. THE WINDS OVER NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS THE NIGHT GOES ON AS THE COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW GETS CLOSER TO OHIO. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER AND OR WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER WILL LIKELY OCCURE. DRIVER OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND SMALL CARS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA MUST USE CAUTION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 7:28 PM EST, 4 hours 6 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 725 PM EST SUN NOV 27 1994 A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA TONIGHT. DEEP LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHEAST IOWA THAT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST WAS CAUSING THE VERY STRONG WINDS IN OHIO THIS EVENING. SINCE 5 PM SOME OF THE STRONGEST WINDS HAVE BEEN OVER NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. AROUND 6 PM THE WINDS GUSTED TO 52 MPH AT THE LOST NATION AIRPORT IN WILLOUGHBY AN EASTERN SUBURB OF CLEVELAND. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES AND POWERLINES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN MAINLY FROM CLEVELAND EAST SINCE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW TREES WERE DOWN IN HARBORCREEK...NORTHEAST OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA AND AT LEAST 4 REPORTS OF TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN IN CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYVLANIA SINCE LATE AFTERNOON. THE WINDS OVER NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS THE NIGHT GOES ON AS THE COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW GETS CLOSER TO OHIO. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER AND OR WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER WILL LIKELY OCCURE. DRIVER OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND SMALL CARS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA MUST USE CAUTION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 10:17 PM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>008-017-018-027-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1017 PM EST SUN NOV 27 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO NORTHWEST OHIO TONIGHT. AT 1015 PM EST A LINE OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM MAUMEE BAY TO BOWLING GREEN TO SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY NEAR HAMLER. THESE STORMS CONTAINED HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE HIGH WINDS OVER THE AREA COMBINED WITH THE STORMS ONLY COMPOUND THIS WEATHER SITUATION. WIND GUSTS TO OVER 50 MPH ARE A REALISTIC POSSIBILITY. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. BY 11 PM THE STORMS SHOULD BE ALONG A LINE FROM PORT CLINTON TO NEAR UPPER SANDUSKY. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS WHILE THUNDERSTORMS AR OCCURING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. DIEFENDERFER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 28, 12:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 38 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.