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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 15, 1995Ottawa County, Sandusky County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 7:16 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ottawa County, OH, Sandusky County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2755 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -170 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-10.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 152316
SVRCLE
OHC123-143-OHZ501-160015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
716 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 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
 
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY...SANDUSKY COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 715 PM EDT NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER OTTAWA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
DOWNED TREES WERE REPORTED IN EASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY AT 715 PM.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
GERARD
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry67 min
Jul 15, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion, Wyandot59 min
Jul 15, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton58 min
Jul 15, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox, Richland66 min
Jul 15, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas54 min
Jul 15, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton46 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland54 min
Jul 15, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull55 min
Jul 15, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning66 min
Jul 15, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne66 min
Jul 15, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie63 min
Jul 15, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Summit60 min
Jul 15, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain64 min
Jul 15, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage57 min
Jul 15, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga55 min
Jul 15, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull59 min
Jul 15, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning63 min
Jul 15, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Summit63 min
Jul 15, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake58 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.