Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1994, 11:39 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 1994, 11:39 PM EDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1994, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 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 130340 SVRCAK OHC151-130445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 1139 PM EDT TUE APR 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...STARK COUNTY RADAR AT 1135 PM INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DOVER MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45. THE STORM SHOULD AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF NAVARRE...MASSILLON AND CANTON. 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. RLB
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, Apr 12, 9:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
OHZALL-130900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 955 PM EDT TUE APR 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A PORTION OF WESTERN OHIO UNTIL 3AM EDT AND THE REMAINDER OF OHIO EXCEPT SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 5AM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE CINCINNATI...DAYTON...FINDLAY... TOLEDO...CLEVELAND...COLUMBUS...ZANESVILLE AND YOUNGSTOWN. WARM MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS IN PLACE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS EVENING AND A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING THROUGH INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT THIS EVENING AND WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE STATE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 63 min |
| Apr 13, 12:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 60 min |
| Apr 13, 12:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron | 67 min |
| Apr 13, 12:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 67 min |
| Apr 13, 12:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 12:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 12:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 62 min |
| Apr 13, 12:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 62 min |
| Apr 13, 1:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 1:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 30 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.