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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

February 27, 1996Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1996, 6:05 PM EST for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 27, 1996, 6:05 PM EST (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1996, 6:30 PM EST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 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 272305 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC123-272330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
605 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR OAK HARBOR MOVING EAST NORTH EAST AT 30 MILES
PER HOUR. SOME CITIES IN PATH OF THIS STORM ARE CAMP PERRY AND PORT
CLINTON.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
RINGO

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, Feb 27, 5:05 PM EST, 1 hour before
OHZ002-003-005>011-017>019-027>030-036-037-047-280000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
510 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH
CENTRAL OHIO. THE WATCH IS FOR THE AREA ROUGHLY WEST OF A LINE FROM
ELYRIA TO MANSFIELD TO MT. GILEAD.

THE UNUSUALLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS OVER THE AREA IN CONJUNCTION WITH A
STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SERVE TO TRIGGER WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TOPNIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

THE FRONT WILL ENTER NORTHWEST OHIO BY 8 PM AND THEN SWEEP ACROSS THE
REMAINDER OF NORTHERN OHIO AND INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BY MIDNIGHT.
A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT.

AT 5 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADARS INDICATED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER EASTERN INDIANA WITH THE NORTHERNMOST STORM APPROACHING VAN WERT
COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING fNORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH.

STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OHIO
BY 7 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

GABRIC
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 5:10 PM EST, 55 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>011-017>019-027>030-036-037-047-280000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
510 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH
CENTRAL OHIO. THE WATCH IS FOR THE AREA ROUGHLY WEST OF A LINE FROM
ELYRIA TO MANSFIELD TO MT. GILEAD.

THE UNUSUALLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS OVER THE AREA IN CONJUNCTION WITH A
STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SERVE TO TRIGGER WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TOPNIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

THE FRONT WILL ENTER NORTHWEST OHIO BY 8 PM AND THEN SWEEP ACROSS THE
REMAINDER OF NORTHERN OHIO AND INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BY MIDNIGHT.
A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT.

AT 5 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADARS INDICATED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER EASTERN INDIANA WITH THE NORTHERNMOST STORM APPROACHING VAN WERT
COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH.

STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OHIO
BY 7 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 10:14 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLESeneca3 hr
Feb 27, 6:01 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEOttawa119 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.