Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1994, 7:02 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1994, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1994, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 WUUS1 KCLE 242303 RRA SVRCLE OHC055-242345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 702 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 700 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST GEAUGA COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY BY 745 PM. 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.
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, 4 hours 57 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, 4 hours 3 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, 3 hours 8 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
Special weather statement, May 24, 5:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
OHZALL-250100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 548 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 1994 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT. SOME MAJOR CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE TOLEDO...CLEVELAND... LIMA...MANSFIELD...AKRON...CANTON...YOUNGSTOWN...DAYTON...COLUMBUS... ZANESVILLE AND ST. CLAIRSVILLE. AT 545 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF YOUNGSTOWN TO NEAR ZANESVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH COLUMBIANA...CARROLL... JEFFERSON...HARRISON...GUERNSEY...NOBLE...BELMONT AND MONROE COUNTIES OF EASTERN OHIO BY 645 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS. BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. STAY INFORMED OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. HILTBRAND
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, 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 |
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.