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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 5, 1995Huron County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 6:03 PM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1995, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Huron County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 158 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 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 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
158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 052204
SVRCLE
OHC077-052245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
603 PM EDT WED JUL 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HURON COUNTY
 
AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED
A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWN OF GREENWICH. THIS STORM IS
MOIVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM ARE NEW LONDON... FITCHVILLE AND CLARKSFIELD.
 
 
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.
 
 
RINGO

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, Jul 5, 2:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
PAZ001>003-052000-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
222 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA...INCLUDING ERIE AN
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 4:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PAZ001>003-OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-052200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
445 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PORTION OF
NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EDT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
UNTIL 7 PM EDT.

AT 445 PM...NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD OCCURRED IN THE WATCH AREAS.
HOWEVER...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM SOUTH OF
SANDUSKY...SOUTH THROUGH WYANDOT COUNTY. THIS BAND OF STORMS IS EXPECTED
TO MOVE EAST DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE WEATHER I0N AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. BE ALERT...AND IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

GABRIC

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