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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 10, 1995Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 12:25 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1995, 12:25 PM EDT (16:25 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1995, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Seneca County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 101626
SVRCLE
OHC147-101715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1225 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SENECA COUNTY
 
AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM NEAR WEST INDEPENDENCE IN HANCOCK COUNTY
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL CROSS INTO SENECA COUNTY AND
MOVE TOWARD FOSTORIA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
 
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.
 
 
KOSARIK

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, May 10, 12:06 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-101705-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1206 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO WILL CONTINUE TO
STRENGTHEN INTO THIS AFTERNOON AND PROGRESS EASTWARD INTO NORTH CENTRAL
AND NORTHEAST OHIO AFTER 1 PM.  THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL
BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

AT 1158 AM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
TOLEDO NEAR TIFFIN. THE STORM WAS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY
RAIN AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL REACH SANDUSKY
BY 1245 PM.

LATER INFORMATION WILHL BE ISSUED IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS UNDER THE
CLENOWCLE PRODUCT HEADER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 12:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Seneca	44 min
May 10, 1:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Sandusky	64 min
May 10, 1:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	53 min
May 10, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark, Summit	64 min
May 10, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	57 min
May 10, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	27 min
May 10, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1995 Every 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.