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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 23, 1995Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 3:12 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 3:47 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 440 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 36 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, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock55 min
Jun 23, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood67 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.