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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 3, 1995Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 4:26 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1995, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 1995-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 539 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 1995-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 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
539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 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 032028 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC123-OHZ501-032130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
426 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
AT 425 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER
OF DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL OTTAWA
COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE
PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE OAK HARBOR AND LOCUS POINT.
 
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.
 
GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 2:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Lake3 hr
Aug 3, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas57 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.