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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 16, 1996Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Ohio

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull34 min
Jul 16, 2:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLETrumbull115 min
Jul 16, 3:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga67 min
Jul 16, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga67 min
Jul 16, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry58 min
Jul 16, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood68 min
Jul 16, 7:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga2 hr
Jul 16, 7:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit52 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.