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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 1, 1995Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1995, 5:40 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1995, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1995-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 514 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 1995-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1201 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 012143 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC173-012245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
540 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER WOOD COUNTY NEAR PORTAGE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST
AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF WEST MILLGROVE AND
BRADNER 615PM.
 
 
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.
 
 
LKW

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, Aug 1, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-OHZ501-LEZ501-
021200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
204 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 1995

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

AT MID AFTERNOON DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN...NORTHEAST
INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO.  THESE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A
WEAK COLD FRONT MOVNG TOWARD THE REGION.

AS THIS FRONT DROPS TOWARD NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...THE POTENTIAL FOR SCATTERED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE REGION WILL INCREASE.

A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS
IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL
OHIO. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY MANY OF THESE
STORMS...AND DUE TO THE FAIRLY SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS FLOODING OF
LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE.

BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE SHOULD ALSO KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED
TO MOVE SAFE HARBOR SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH OR A SPECIAL
MARINE WARNING BE ISSUED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry68 min
Aug 1, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca66 min
Aug 1, 7:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga2 hr
Aug 1, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow55 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.