Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 1:20 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1996, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Geauga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 161721 SVRCLE OHC007-055-161815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 120 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY...GEAUGA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF CHARDON AND EAST TO NEAR THE ASHTABULA COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO ORWELL BY 2 PM. NICKEL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 34 min |
| Jul 16, 2:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 115 min |
| Jul 16, 3:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga | 67 min |
| Jul 16, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 67 min |
| Jul 16, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 58 min |
| Jul 16, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 68 min |
| Jul 16, 7:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.