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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 24, 1995Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 3:12 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1995, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 240 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 241913
SVRCLE
OHC133-241945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
312 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
AT 310 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER
NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL
HIT THE CITIES OF AURORA AND STREETSBORO BY 320 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
WOODWORTH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron44 min
May 24, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain62 min
May 24, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga10 min
May 24, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit25 min
May 24, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga30 min
May 24, 3:29 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull46 min
May 24, 3:29 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage16 min
May 24, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula26 min
May 24, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning32 min

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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.