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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 15, 1995Cuyahoga County, Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Portage County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2889 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
2889 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 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 160016 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC035-133-OHZ501-160115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
815 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 815 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTAGE
COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE ACROSS PARTS OF SUMMIT
AND MEDINA COUNTIES.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 8:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga2 hr
Jul 15, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Trumbull64 min
Jul 16, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford62 min
Jul 16, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Richland69 min
Jul 16, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow53 min
Jul 16, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron35 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.