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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 4, 1995Hancock County, Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 8:09 PM EDT for Hancock County, Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1995, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hancock County, OH, Seneca County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1975 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 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
1975 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 050010 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC063-147-050100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
809 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HANCOCK COUNTY...SENECA COUNTY
 
AT 809 PM NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
NORTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF ARCADIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE FOSTORIA AND AMSDEN.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood54 min
Jul 5, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron42 min
Jul 5, 6:32 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHuron, Lorain28 min
Jul 5, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina65 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.