Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 3:10 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 4:07 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 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 101911 SVRCLE OHC093-102015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 310 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...LORAIN COUNTY AT 3:10 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE LAKESHORE NEAR THE CITY OF LORAIN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST- NORTHEAST AND WILL AFFECT MUCH OF NORTHERN LORAIN COUNTY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. 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. KOSARIK
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, May 10, 12:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-101705- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1206 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN INTO THIS AFTERNOON AND PROGRESS EASTWARD INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO AFTER 1 PM. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AT 1158 AM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOLEDO NEAR TIFFIN. THE STORM WAS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL REACH SANDUSKY BY 1245 PM. LATER INFORMATION WILHL BE ISSUED IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS UNDER THE CLENOWCLE PRODUCT HEADER.
Special weather statement, May 10, 2:28 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
OHZ009-010-011-012-013-014-019-020-021-022-023-028-029-030-031- 032-033-036-037-038-047-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 228 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7 PM. AT 2:20 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO FROM CLEVELAND WEST THROUGH NORWALK. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM NEAR AKRON SOUTH TOWARD THE OHIO RIVER. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH AND ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED. ANY THUNDERSTORM COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH STORMS OVER NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. BE ALERT FOR DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER INDOORS IN A STRONG BUILDING. REMEMBER THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. KOSARIK
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:03 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
PAZ001-002-003-102000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 302 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA HAS EXPIRED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8:00 PM. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LAKE ERIE THROUGH AT LEAST 415 PM. THE STRONGEST STORMS HAVE MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF ERIE COUNTY. HAIL 1.25 INCHES IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED IN ALBION WHEN THE STORM PASSED THROUGH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING SOUTH OF ERIE COUNTY NEAR YOUNGSTOWN AND SHARON AND WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS CRAWFORD AND ERIE COUNTY BEFORE 430 PM. RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERTn FOR THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. KOSARIK &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 50 min |
| May 10, 12:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 44 min |
| May 10, 1:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 64 min |
| May 10, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 53 min |
| May 10, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 64 min |
| May 10, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 27 min |
| May 10, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.