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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 15, 1995Medina County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 7:42 PM EDT for Medina County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Medina County, OH, Summit County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 152343 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC099-103-153-160045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
742 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...MAHONING COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 740 PM NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS MEDINA COUNTY...WITH OTHER SEVERE STORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND
SUMMIT COUNTY. TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN OVER SOUTHEAST MEDINA COUNTY
WITH THESE STORMS AT 740 PM.
 
OTHER SEVERE STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN PORTAGE COUNTY AND WILL BE MOVING
INTO MAHONING COUNTY IN ADDITION TO SEVERE STORMS THAT WERE OVER
MAHONING COUNTY AT 740 PM. TREES WERE DOWNED IN THE LAKE MILTON AREA
AT 730 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...jAND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
GERARD
 
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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, 7:20 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, 7:47 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.