Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1994, 4:28 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1994, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mahoning County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 KYNG 242029 SVRYNG OHC099-242115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 428 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN YOUNGSTOWN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...MAHONING COUNTY AT 426 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TO THE WEST OF CANFIELD. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT CANFIELD BY 430 PM AND THE YOUNGSTOWN-BOARDMAN AREAS BY 445 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEAjDLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. MITCHELL
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, 2 hours 23 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, 1 hour 29 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
Special weather statement, May 24, 3:54 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
OHZ010>014-020-252100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 355 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 1994 STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN MEDINA COUNTY. AT 350 PM EDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS ALONG THE MEDINA...WAYNE COUNTY LINE IN SOUTHERN MEDINA COUNTY NEAR INTERSTATE 71. THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH WADSWORTH BY 420 PM. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFETY AS THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. A FEW OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO MAINLY IN GEAUGA AND ASHTABULA COUNTIES. 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 WARNINGS 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, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 66 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.