Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1995, 5:44 PM EDT for Erie County, Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1995, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 152147 SVRCLE OHC043-143-152245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 544 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ERIE COUNTY...SANDUSKY COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 544 PM EDT...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM COLBY IN SANDUSKY COUNTY...NORTHEAST TO NEAR SANDUSKY IN ERIE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE BELLEVUE...PARKERTOWN...KIMBAL AND BLOOMINGVILLE. 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 WARNIjNG. BARJENBRUCH
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, 3:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>008-017-018-027-028-152300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 327 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 9 PM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE TOLEDO...FINDLAY AND LIMA. AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE WATCH AREA INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO( POSSIBLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES ONE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 61 min |
| 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, 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.