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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 27, 1995Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1995, 2:11 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1995, 2:11 PM EDT (18:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1995, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 609 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 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
609 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 271813 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC035-271915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
211 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR MAPLE HEIGHTS. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH
AND WILL PASS NEAR THE CITIES OF SHAKER HEIGHTS AND THE EASTERN SUBURBS
OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE$
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
END/COMEAUX

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 8:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Henry71 min
Jun 26, 9:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood62 min
Jun 27, 1:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion, Morrow3 hr
Jun 27, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit68 min
Jun 27, 2:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit2 hr
Jun 27, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit66 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood34 min
Jun 27, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca46 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.