Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Lake 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
- Jul 7, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Lake County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 10:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Geneva On The Lake, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 604 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 080100 SVRCLE OHC007-085-OHZ525-526-080200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 900 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY...LAKE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 855 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE ERIE JUST NORTH OF EASTERN LAKE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INLAND OVER EASTERN LAKE AND ASHTABULA COUNTIES BY 930 PM. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. 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. VRCEK
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, Jul 7, 5:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>009-017>019-027-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 510 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST OHIO AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EDT. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE TOLEDO...FINDLAY...PORT CLINTON...FREMONT...TIFFIN...NORWALK AND HURON. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WAS OVER INDIANA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND HAVE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NECESSARY. PEOPLE SHOULD ALSO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE jLOCAL MEDIA FOR WARNINGS. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 8:08 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-080300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 805 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL 1 AM. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ISLANDS TO RIPLEY NEW YORK UNTIL 915 PM EDT. AT 8 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR CLEVELAND AND OVER THE LAKE NORTH OF CLEVELAND. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER OCCURS OR WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 28 min |
| Jul 7, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 9:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 36 min |
| Jul 7, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 68 min |
| Jul 7, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 10:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 59 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.