Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 7:10 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1995, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 837 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 052311 RRA SVRCLE OHC035-103-060015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 710 PM EDT WED JUL 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 705 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR AVON LAKE TO WELLINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE GREATER CLEVELAND AND BRUNSWICK. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUEJNT 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, 4 hours 48 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, 2 hours 20 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Seneca | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 28 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.