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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 17, 1995Morrow County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1995, 5:23 PM EDT for Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1995, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1995, 6:20 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Morrow County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3111 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KCLE 172124 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC117-172230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
523 PM EDT THU AUG 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...MORROW COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARENGO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES
PER HOUR AND WILL PASS NEAR THE TOWNS OF SPARTA AND BLOOMFIELD.
 
 
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.
 
 
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 17, 2:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 9:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton55 min
Aug 17, 11:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry56 min
Aug 17, 1:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELucas2 hr
Aug 17, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky58 min
Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELucas, Ottawa112 min
Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESandusky112 min
Aug 17, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron60 min
Aug 17, 2:49 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie26 min
Aug 17, 3:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Huron2 hr
Aug 17, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain63 min
Aug 17, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Richland58 min
Aug 17, 3:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Lorain, Richland2 hr
Aug 17, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox57 min
Aug 17, 4:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox2 hr

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.