Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 1:43 AM EST for Coshocton County, Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 1:43 AM EST (06:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 2:45 AM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coshocton County, OH, Holmes County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 3320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 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 240644 SVRCAK OHC031-075-240745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 143 AM EST THU MAR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...COSHOCTON COUNTY...HOLMES COUNTY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING WESTERN HOLMES AND COSHOCTON COUNTIES. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MILLERSBURG NEAR NASHVILLE IN HOLMES COUNTY AND ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF COSHOCTON NEAR NEW CASTLE AT 140 AM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY 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.
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, Mar 24, 12:22 AM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 11:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Putnam | 25 min |
Nearby
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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.