Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Cleveland, OH
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 5:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Huron, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 116 min |
| Jun 19, 1:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 118 min |
| Jun 19, 4:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 119 min |
| Jun 19, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 116 min |
| Jun 19, 7:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 116 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.