Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 1:12 AM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1995, 1:12 AM EDT (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1995, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 290512 SVRCLE OHC133-290615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 112 AM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...PORTAGE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN SUMMIT COUNTY NEAR TALLMADGE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH RAVENNA AND KENT AREAS BY 130 AM. 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.
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 28, 7:56 PM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005-006-007-008-009-010-017-018-019-027-290400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 755 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 750 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF TOLEDO TO VAN WERT OHIO. THIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH LUCAS...HENRY2 AND WOOD COUNTIES BY 830 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. END/COMEAUX
Special weather statement, May 28, 8:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-017-018-019-020-027-290415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 814 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 815 PM THIS EVENING DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE LOlCATED FROM LUCAS COUNTY THROUGH WOOD...HENRY AND PUTNAM COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...SENECA AND HANCOCK COUTNIES BY 9 PM. END/COMEAUX
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:27 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
OHZ006>009-017-018-290600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1226 AM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ERIE...HANCOCK...OTTAWA...SANDUSKY... SENECA AND JWOOD COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND NO FURTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. HILTBRAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 47 min |
| May 28, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa | 51 min |
| May 28, 9:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 30 min |
| May 28, 9:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 41 min |
| May 28, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 49 min |
| May 28, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 61 min |
| May 28, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 63 min |
| May 28, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 68 min |
| May 28, 10:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 55 min |
| May 28, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 37 min |
| May 28, 11:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Huron | 64 min |
| May 28, 11:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 58 min |
| May 28, 11:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| May 29, 12:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 63 min |
| May 29, 12:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 54 min |
| May 29, 12:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 58 min |
| May 29, 12:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 66 min |
| May 29, 12:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 58 min |
| May 29, 1:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 66 min |
| May 29, 1:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit, Wayne | 59 min |
| May 29, 1:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 67 min |
| May 29, 2:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 69 min |
| May 29, 2:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 66 min |
| May 29, 2:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 47 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.