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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

March 24, 1994Coshocton County, Holmes County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1994-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1994-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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
OHZ009>014-019-020-028>030-037-047-240630-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1220 AM EST THU MAR 24 1994

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL OHIO EARLY THIS
MORNING.

AT 1215 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO AND WESTERN
LAKE ERIE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WYANDOT COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF
UPPER SANDUSKY. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HAIL AND WINDS
TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AS IT MOVES INTO CRAWFORD COUNTY BETWEEN 1220 AND
1235 AM.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WESTERN ERIE...MEDINA...AND
SOUTHERN LORAIN COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE CLEVELAND
HOUR BY 1 AM.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST OHIO THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. PEOPLE ACROSS THE REGION
SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POTENTIAL FOR STORMS PRODUCING HAIL...WIND GUSTS
TO 50 MILES AN HOUR...HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

GERARD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 11:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPutnam25 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.