Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1995, 2:29 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1995, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holmes County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 439 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 151832 SVRCLE OHC075-151930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 229 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...HOLMES COUNTY AT 225 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST HOLMES COUNTY BETWEEN LAKEVILLE AND HOLMESVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL NEAR THE TOWNS OF HOLMESVILLE... BENTON AND MOUNT HOPE. HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH THIS STORM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A REINF ORCED 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. RINGO
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 15, 10:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-170000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1050 AM EDT TUE AUG 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND OHIO SAYS THAT ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF OHIO FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS DUE TO A COMBINATION OF A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...FLOODING WILL ALSO BE A POSSIBILITY AS SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY HAVE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. PERSONS ACROSS THE NORTHERN THIRD OF OHIO SHOULD KEEP TUNED TO LATER FORECASTS AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY. WOODWORTH
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 11:03 AM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-161200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1100 AM EDT MON AUG 14 1995 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THAT ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN THIRD OF OHIO FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS BECAUSE OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT AND A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. BESIDES THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY HAVE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH COULD CAUSE SOME FLOODING. PEOPLE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD KEZEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND MONITOR LATER FORECASTS. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas | 117 min |
| Aug 15, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 45 min |
| Aug 15, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Fulton | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 68 min |
| Aug 15, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Sandusky | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 42 min |
| Aug 15, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 68 min |
| Aug 15, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Seneca | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 117 min |
| Aug 15, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 68 min |
| Aug 15, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Medina | 61 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.