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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 1, 1995Morrow County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1995, 7:35 PM EDT for Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1995, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Morrow County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 482 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 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
482 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1268 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-33 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 
WUUS1 KCLE 012335 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC117-020030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
735 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...MORROW COUNTY
 
AT 730 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF DENMARK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF IBERIA AND WEST POINT BY 800 PM.
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO 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, 5 hours 31 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, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood65 min
Aug 1, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca66 min
Aug 1, 7:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga2 hr

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.