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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 17, 1996Wyandot County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1996, 8:17 PM EDT for Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1996, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 17, 8:40 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 56South Central, OH
Jun 17, 8:45 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 60Harpster, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 653 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1343 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 6:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton3 hr
Jun 18, 1:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage68 min
Jun 18, 5:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEOttawa3 hr
Jun 18, 5:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESandusky2 hr
Jun 18, 6:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton3 hr
Jun 18, 6:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie3 hr
Jun 18, 8:58 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie3 hr
Jun 18, 9:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie65 min
Jun 18, 9:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie3 hr
Jun 18, 12:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie116 min
Jun 18, 4:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford3 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.