Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 3:15 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1995, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 241917 SVRCLE OHC055-241945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 315 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 ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 314 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST GEAUGA COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL HIT THE CITIES OF RUSSELL AND BAINBRIDGE 320 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. WOODWORTH
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 24, 12:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
OH029>033-OH036>038-OH047-251200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 1235 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF YOUNGSTOWN...CANTON AND MANSFIELD IN EASTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. A COLD FRONT WAS SINKING SOUTH INTO OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. WARM UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT WAS BEING BROUGHT INTO THE STATE VIA STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE AIRMASS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON. WITH THE COLD FRONT APPROACHING...STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 KNOTS/ 58 MPH COULD DEVELOP. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIAL DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. SEM
Special weather statement, May 24, 12:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
OHZ029>033-OHZ036>038-OHZ047-251200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1235 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF YOUNGSTOWN...CANTON AND MANSFIELD IN EASTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. A COLD FRONT WAS SINKING SOUTH INTO OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. WARM UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT WAS BEING BROUGHT INTO THE STATE VIA STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE AIRMASS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON. WITH THE COLD FRONT APPROACHING...STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 KNOTS/ 58 MPH COULD DEVELOP. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIAL DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. SEM ...CORRECTD HEADER CODES...
Special weather statement, May 24, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
OHZ020>023-028>033-036>038-047-PAZ003-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 137 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7 PM EDT. THE WATCH EXTENDS SOUTH FROM CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA TO MEDINA... TO MANSFIELD TO CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF AKRON-CANTON...YOUNGSTOWN...MANSFIELD AND MARION OHIO. AN AREA OF RAPIDLY MOVING THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH-CENTRAL OHIO AT 1:40 PM WAS OVER SENECA COUNTY OHIO NEAR FOSTORIA. IT WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORWALK AND OBERLIN AREA BY 3 PM EDT. A SECOND AREA OF STORM WAS MOVING INTO THE MARION OHIO AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE. DEB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 44 min |
| May 24, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 62 min |
| May 24, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 10 min |
| May 24, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 25 min |
| May 24, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 33 min |
| May 24, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 16 min |
| May 24, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 26 min |
| May 24, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 32 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.