Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Cleveland, OH
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
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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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 68 min |
| Aug 1, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 7:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 55 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.