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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 15, 1995Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 7:20 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4594 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 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 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
4594 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 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 152321 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC035-OHZ501-160015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
720 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 LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
AT 720 PM EDT NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER LORAIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
WINDS OF 82 MPH WERE REPORTED IN VERMILION AT 715 PM WITH THESE
STORMS...AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WINDS OF 90 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
 
PEOPLE IN THE CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN AREA SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER NOW!!!
 
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
WA
TER 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, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky59 min
Jul 15, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage57 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

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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.