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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 23, 1995Hancock County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 2:50 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Hancock County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 245 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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 KCLE 231851 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC063-231945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
250 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 250 PM EDT CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
HANCOCK COUNTY JUST NORTHEAST OF FINDLAY. IT WAS MOVING WEST ABOUT 10
MPH.
 
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, Jun 23, 10:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
OHZ007>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-241200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1036 AM EDT FRI JUN 23 1995

THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE THAT THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE OVER
NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE FROM OHIO TO TENNESSEE WILL COMBINE
WITH ADEQUATE MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING TO DEVELOP SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE THREAT AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE
WITH THE STORMS AS THEY WILL BE SLOW MOVERS.

HILTBRAND

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood67 min
Jun 23, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood35 min
Jun 23, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry49 min
Jun 23, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca65 min
Jun 23, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron26 min
Jun 23, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.