Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 214, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 9:40 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1995, 9:40 PM EDT (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1995, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Medina County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 2947 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 140142 RRA SVRCLE OHC035-055-103-153-140245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 940 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...GEAUGA COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY ...SUMMIT COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM MIDDLEFIELD TO BRECKSVILLE TO EATON TOWNSHIP IN LORAIN COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THEY WILL MOVE INTO MEDINA AND SUMMIT COUNTIES BY 10 PM EDT. 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. DEB
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
Local storm report, Aug 13, 5:44 PM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
545 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 1995
STORM REPORTS FROM EARLY SUNDAY AUG 13
TIME (LOCAL) LOCATION STATE EVENT/DAMAGE
COUNTY2
0000 OREGON OH MANY LARGE BRANCHES DOWN
LUCAS
KIELTYKALocal storm report, Aug 13, 5:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
545 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 1995
STORM REPORTS FROM EARLY SUNDAY AUG 13
TIME (LOCAL) LOCATION STATE EVENT/DAMAGE
COUNTY
0000 OREGON OH MANY LARGE BRANCHES DOWN
LUCAS
KIELTYKA
EN
CANCELLED.Special weather statement, Aug 13, 8:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
OHZ002-003-007>014-019>023-031>033-PAZ001>003-140200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 813 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYVLANIA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR MAUMEE BAY TO RIPLEY NY UNTIL 930 PM. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE TOLEDO...NORWALK...CLEVELAND...PAINESVILLE...AKRON-CANTON AND YOUNGSTOWN AND ERIE PENNSYVLANIA AND MEADVILLE. A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING MOVING OUT OF MICHIGAN WILL AFFECT NORTHERN OHIO EARLY TONIGHT. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE...PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND MOVE TO SAFETY AS NEEDED. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 8:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
OHZ002-003-007>014-019>023-031>033-PAZ001>003-140200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 813 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYVLANIA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR MAUMEE BAY TO RIPLEY NY UNTIL 930 PM. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE TOLEDO...NORWALK...CLEVELAND...PAINESVILLE...AKRON-CANTON AND YOUNGSTOWN AND ERIE PENNSYVLANIA AND MEADVILLE. A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING MOVING OUT OF MICHIGAN WILL AFFECT NORTHERN OHIO EARLY TONIGHT. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE...PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND MOVE TO SAFETY AS NEEDED. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 57 min |
| Aug 13, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 68 min |
| Aug 13, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 68 min |
| Aug 13, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 66 min |
| Aug 13, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 55 min |
| Aug 13, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 55 min |
| Aug 13, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 63 min |
| Aug 13, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage | 58 min |
| Aug 13, 10:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage | 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.