Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 3111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 171830 RRA SVRCLE OHC043-077-171930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 230 PM EDT THU AUG 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ERIE COUNTY...HURON COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 225 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR NORTH MONROEVILLE IN HURON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE KIMBALL AND MILAN. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS ALL LIGHTNING EXPERTS AGREE THAT THE MOST IMbPORTANT SINGLE THING YOU CAN DO IS TO GET INSIDE A HOME OR LARGE BUILDING. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME TO REACH A SAFE BUILDING AVOID OPEN FIELDS SUCH AS GOLF COURSES... BASEBALL FIELDS... BEACHES OR FISHING PIERS. ACR
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 17, 11:19 AM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-181200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1119 AM EDT THU AUG 17 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTINUE TODAY. A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO WILL FOCUS THE STORMS. THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS...THOUGH HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...FLOODING MAY ALSO TAKE PLACE AS SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN TORRENTIAL RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 2:10 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
OHZ003-005>014-017>021-027>031-036>038-047-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 210 PM EDT THU AUG 17 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHERN OHIO...THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF TOLEDO...CLEVELAND...MANSFIELD...AKRON AND FINDLAY. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL IS THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER AND WINDS GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER. AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST OHIO AND MOVING SLOWLY EAST. HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO BE A PROBLEM. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 11:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 56 min |
| Aug 17, 1:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa | 112 min |
| Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 112 min |
| Aug 17, 2:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 3:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 3:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain, Richland | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 4:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 57 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.