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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 28, 1995Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 10:26 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1995, 10:26 PM EDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1995, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 249 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1225 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 290228 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC153-290300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1026 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR AT CLEVELAND AND PUBLIC REPORTS OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
DIME SIZED HAIL WERE REPORTED ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR OVER NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY. THIS STORM
SHOULD PASS NEAR TWINSBURG BY 10 45 PM.
 
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.
 
VRCEK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 12:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron56 min
Jun 29, 1:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Marion58 min
Jun 29, 4:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark2 hr
Jun 29, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull51 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.