Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 2:26 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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 16, 1996, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trumbull County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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 16, 2:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Kinsman, 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 161826 SVRCLE OHC155-161900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 226 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...TRUMBULL COUNTY AT 225 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CORINTH IN NORTHEAST TRUMBULL COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT KINSMAN BY 235 PM. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.