Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 10:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Seneca | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 6:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.