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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 19, 1996Erie County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 5:40 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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 19, 1996, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 5:55 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 60Huron, 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1996-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 367 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 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 192142
SVRCLE
OHC043-OHZ522-OHZ523-OHZ521-192230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
540 PM EDT WED JUN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 540 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE
CITY OF PROUT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MILES PER HOUR.
THIS STORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
 
 
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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 8:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain2 hr
Jun 18, 10:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina116 min
Jun 19, 1:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford118 min
Jun 19, 4:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula119 min
Jun 19, 5:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
Jun 19, 6:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie116 min
Jun 19, 7:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula116 min

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