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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 21, 1995Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 8:17 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1995, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 159 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 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
159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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 220018 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC035-220115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
817 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 815 PM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER CUYAHOGA COUNTY
NEAR WESTLAKE AND CLEVELAND HEIGHTS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AROUND
15 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Richland68 min
Jun 22, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Summit66 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.