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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 5, 1995Cuyahoga County, Medina County, Ohio

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.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 837 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
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

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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.

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

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.