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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 10, 1995Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 3:48 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 403 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 101948
SVRCLE
OHC035-102015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
348 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 NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
HAIL THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED AT WEST 130TH
STREET AND INTERSTATE 480. THESE STORMS WILL CROSS EASTERN CUYAHOGA
COUNTY AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 12:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca50 min
May 10, 12:46 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESeneca44 min
May 10, 1:11 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESandusky64 min
May 10, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood53 min
May 10, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit64 min
May 10, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain57 min
May 10, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake36 min

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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.