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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 14, 1995Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 3:21 AM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 3:21 AM EDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Seneca County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 395 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 140722
SVRCLE
OHC147-140815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
321 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...SENECA COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN SENECA
COUNTY NEAR BERWICK MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND SHOULD PASS JUST SOUTH OF
TIFFIN.
 
 
 
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 14, 1:28 AM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-051200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
130 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO TONIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF
NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL 8AM THIS MORNING.  WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 130 AM
SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN
INDIANA TOWARD OHIO.  CONFIRMED TORNADOES HAVE ALSO BEEN ASSOCIATED
WITH SOME OF THE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OHIO AROUND 2AM.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS ARE FAVORABLE.  THIS IS A DANGEROUS
SITUATION.  PEOPLE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO SHOULD BE PREPAIRED TO TAKE
SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.

TK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 4:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	44 min
May 14, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	53 min
May 14, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	51 min
May 14, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	68 min
May 14, 3:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Geauga	57 min
May 14, 3:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	68 min
May 14, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	59 min
May 14, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	51 min
May 14, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1995 Every 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.