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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 4, 1995Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 8:21 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1995, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
54 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 00:22 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 050022 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC173-050115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
821 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 820 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST WOOD COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF CUSTAR AND
MILTON CENTER. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BOWLING GREEN...PORTAGE
AND RUDOLPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
HILTBRAND

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Seneca51 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.