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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 14, 1995Hancock County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Hancock County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 1995-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1995-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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 
WUUS1 KCLE 142000 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC063-142100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
400 PM EDT WED JUN 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 359 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN
HANCOCK COUNTY JUST NORTH OF FINDLAY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE TO EAST AND SOUTHEAST
HANCOCK COUNTY BY 430 PM.
 
 
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.
 
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, Jun 14, 3:48 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>010-017>019-027>030-036-037-047-142150-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
348 PM EDT WED JUN 14 1995

AT 342 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER PORTIONS
OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE
AFTERNOON HOURS ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND SMALL HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

WOODWORTH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood68 min
Jun 14, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca64 min
Jun 14, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.