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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 13, 1996Geauga County, Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1996, 9:51 PM EDT for Geauga County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 min. 3 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 13, 1996, 9:51 PM EDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1996, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Geauga County, OH, Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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 13, 9:55 PM EDTHail 0.75Welshfield, OH
Jul 13, 10:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 60Champion Twp, OH
Jul 13, 10:46 PM EDTHail 0.88Cortland, 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 1996-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1137 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 1996-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
1137 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1222 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 140151
SVRCLE
OHC055-155-140300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
951 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
AT 950 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME EASTERN GEAUGA COUNTY FROM MIDDLEFIELD TO
PARKMAN. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN
TRUMBULL COUNTY BY 10 PM AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF MESOPOTAMIA AND
NORTH BLOOMFIELD BY 10:15 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRINRG...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.

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.