Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 10:45 AM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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 22, 1996, 10:45 AM EDT (14:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 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 22, 11:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Southern Third, 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 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 221446 SVRCLE OHC151-221545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1045 AM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...STARK COUNTY AT 1045 AM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A FAST MOVING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOOSTER IN WAYNE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF DALTON...MASSILLON...AND CANTON. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JOLLY
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, Jun 22, 6:07 AM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-231200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 605 AM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS MORNING. A COLD FRONT PASSING THROUGH NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS MORNING WAS TRIGGERING SHOWERS AND SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. BY THIS AFTERNOON DRIER AIR WILL BE MOVING INTO THE AREA AND THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL END. TONIGHT SHOULD BE DRY. KOSARIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 9:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 10:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.