Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 1994, 5:31 PM EST for Carroll County, Jefferson County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 1994, 5:31 PM EST (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 1994, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, OH, Jefferson County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 712 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 923 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 232231 SVRCAK OHC081-019-232315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 531 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...CARROLL COUNTY AT 530 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWN OF SCIO IN EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL HARRISON COUNTY ALONG THE CARROLL COUNTY BORDER. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 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. IK
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, Feb 23, 3:05 PM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
OHZ007>014-018>020-232130 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 305 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATES A NORTH TO SOUTH LINE OF SHOWERS 10 TO 15 MILES WIDE WILL PASS THROUGH EASTERN LORAIN COUNTY BY 315 PM AND INTO CUYAHOGA AND MEDINA COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. SMITH CORRECTED HEADER TIME
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:06 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
OHZ007>014-018>020-232130 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 305 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATES A NORTH TO SOUTH LINE OF SHOWERS 10 TO 15 MILES WIDE WILL PASS THROUGH EASTERN LORAIN COUNTY BY 315 PM AND INTO CUYAHOGA AND MEDINA COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. $$X SMITH CORRECTED HEADER TIME
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:30 PM EST, 2 hours 1 minute before
OHZ001>006-015>017-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 330 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE WINTER STORM WARNING FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS ALSO BEEN CANCELLED. AT 330 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. NO SIGNIFICANT RAIN REMAINED OVER NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME LIGHT RAIN WILL LINGER OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW BY MIDNIGHT. THE SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE ABOUT AN INCH LATER TONIGHT. KOSARIK
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:35 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
OHZ001>006-015>017-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 330 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 THE WINTER STORM WARNING FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS ALSO BEEN CANCELLED. AT 330 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. NO SIGNIFICANT RAIN REMAINED OVER NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME LIGHT RAIN WILL LINGER OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW BY MIDNIGHT. THE SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE ABOUT AN INCH LATER TONIGHT. KOSARIK
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 4:46 PM EST, 45 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
446 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS EASTERN OHIO
THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 440 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM PORTAGE COUNTY
SOUTHWEST TO GUERNSEY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AROUND 50 MPH.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER TUSCARAWAS COUNTY.
THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
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OHZ021-022-031-032-039 232245 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 446 PM EST WED FEB 23 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS EASTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 440 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM PORTAGE COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO GUERNSEY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER TUSCARAWAS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. IK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 49 min |
| Feb 23, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 53 min |
| Feb 23, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 43 min |
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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.