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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 7, 1996Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 9:29 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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, 9:29 PM EDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 7, 9:45 PM EDTThunderstorm WindFranklin Twp, OH
Jul 7, 9:46 PM EDTHail 0.75Clinton, 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 604 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 4 hours 19 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, 1 hour 21 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Lake60 min
Jul 7, 9:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne28 min
Jul 7, 9:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark57 min
Jul 7, 9:39 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWayne36 min
Jul 7, 10:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit29 min
Jul 7, 10:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion, Morrow68 min
Jul 7, 10:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark52 min
Jul 7, 10:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark2 hr
Jul 7, 10:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland48 min
Jul 7, 11:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland59 min
Jul 7, 11:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford62 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.