Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1994, 3:39 PM EDT for Stark County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1994, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1994, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 KCAK 241941 SVRCAK OHC151-153-242045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 339 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...STARK COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY AT 338 SMALL HAIL AND 49 MPH WIND GUST AT 336PM EDT OCCURED AT THE AKRON-CANTON AIRPORT...THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 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.
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, May 24, 2:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
OHZ010>014-020-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 205 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 1994 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO. AT 155 PM EDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... WERE DEVELOPING IN AND AROUND THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE IN A CLUSTER FROM CENTRAL HURON COUNTY SOUTH TO NEAR MANSFIELD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTH ASHLAND...SOUTHERN LORAIN...NORTHWEST MEDINA AND INTO SOUTHWEST CUYAHOGA COUNTIES BY 300 PM. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFETY AS THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. AS THE AIRMASS OVER NORTHERN OHIO REMAINS UNSTABLE THROUGH THIS EVENING...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AROUND THE AREA. THEREFOR:E...STAY INFORMED OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE READY TO TAKE ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. ADAMS
Special weather statement, May 24, 2:59 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
OHZ010>014-020-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 258 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP IN NORTHERN OHIO. AT 250 PM EDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... WERE DEVELOPING IN A BAND FROM CLEVELAND SOUTH THROUGH MEDINA COUNTY AND INTO WAYNE COUNTY NEAR WOOSTER. OTHER MORE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING BACK BEHIND THIS BAND FROM THE LAKESHORE IN LORAIN AND ERIE COUNTIES SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST TO NEAR COLUMBUS AND DAYTON. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAIN WERE IN NORTH MEDINA COUNTY NEAR BRUNSWICK AND JUST OFFSHORE FROM VERMILLION. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFETY AS THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. AS THE AIRMASS OVER NORTHERN OHIO REMAINS UNSTABLE THROUGH THIS EVENING...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AROUND THE AREA. THEREFORE...STAY INFORMED OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE READY TO TAKE ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR WARNI NGS ARE ISSUED. ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 47 min |
| May 24, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 44 min |
| May 24, 5:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Harrison, Jefferson | 65 min |
| May 24, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Belmont, Jefferson | 69 min |
| May 24, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 43 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.