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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 24, 1996Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 12:30 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 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 24, 1996, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ashland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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 24, 12:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Ashland, 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 text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 241632
SVRCLE
OHC005-241700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1230 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 1230 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MIFFLIN.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ALONG ROUTE
30 THROUGH HAYESVILLE BY 100 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
REL

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 24, 7:09 AM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-221200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
710 AM EDT MON JUN 24 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO TODAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING TODAY
IN THE WARM AND HUMID AIR OUT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT.  VERY STRONG AND
GUSTY WIND,S...HAIL...FRQUENT LIGHTENING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS  MAY
ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS THROUGH THE AREA.

THE COLD FRONT SHOULD BRING AN END TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

VRCEK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 2:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton60 min
Jun 24, 5:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain62 min
Jun 24, 6:51 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga2 hr
Jun 24, 11:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland54 min
Jun 24, 11:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland34 min
Jun 24, 11:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion25 min
Jun 24, 11:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford39 min
Jun 24, 11:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes34 min
Jun 24, 12:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland33 min
Jun 24, 12:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina44 min
Jun 24, 12:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne62 min
Jun 24, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit64 min
Jun 24, 12:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark56 min
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Medina, Wayne3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland3 hr
Jun 24, 12:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit36 min
Jun 24, 1:05 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage55 min
Jun 24, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox46 min
Jun 24, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes57 min
Jun 24, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox41 min
Jun 24, 1:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning62 min
Jun 24, 1:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Wayne58 min
Jun 24, 1:50 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMahoning25 min
Jun 24, 2:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.