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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 27, 1995Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1995, 7:44 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1995, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Seneca County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 1995-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 241 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 1995-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 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 272345
SVRCLE
OHC147-280030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
744 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SENECA COUNTY
 
AT 742 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR UPPER
SANDUSKY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AROUND 20 MPH.
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITThLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.
 
 
GABRIC

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 27, 7:00 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
OHZ009>014-019>023-029>033-038-047-PAZ001>003-280000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
700 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR ALL BUT ASHTABULA
TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES IN OHIO...
...FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE MANSFIELD CLEVELAND AKRON
AREAS...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED EXCEPT IN THE
EXTREME EASTERN COUNTIES BORDERING PENNSYLVANIA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 8 PM IN ASHTABULA TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES
IN OHIO AND IN CRAWFORD AND ERIE COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA.

THE FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE MANSFIELD...CLEVELAND AND
AKRON AREAS.  THE FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN ASHTABULA...TRUMBULL AND
MAHONING COUNTIES IN EASTERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
FROM OTTAWA COUNTY SOUTH TO MARION AND MORROW COUNTIES.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED OVER NORTHEAST OHIO AND THE
THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODING HAVE LESSENED.

LAPLANTE
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:01 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
OHZ009>014-019>023-029>033-038-047-PAZ001>003-280000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
700 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR ALL BUT ASHTABULA
TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES IN OHIO...
...FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE MANSFIELD CLEVELAND AKRON
AREAS...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED EXCEPT IN THE
EXTREME EASTERN COUNTIES BORDERING PENNSYLVANIA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 8 PM IN ASHTABULA TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES
IN OHIO AND IN CRAWFORD AND ERIE COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA.

THE FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE MANSFIELD...CLEVELAND AND
AKRON AREAS.  THE FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN ASHTABULA...TRUMBULL AND
MAHONING COUNTIES IN EASTERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
FROM OTTAWA COUNTY SOUTH TO MARION AND MORROW COUNTIES.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED OVER NORTHEAST OHIO AND THE
THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODING HAVE LESSENED.

LAPLANTE

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, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga64 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

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.