Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 8:07 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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
- Apr 12, 1996, 8:07 PM EDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 130009 SVRCLE OHC055-130045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 807 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 810 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN GEAUGA COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL REACH BURTON BY 830 PM AND MIDDLEFIELD BY 835PM. HAIL AND HIGH WINDS ARE INDICATED WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Apr 12, 3:35 PM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
OHZ001>008-015>018-024>027-034>036-130000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 335 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ABOUT THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE STATE UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING. LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHWEST ILLINOIS WAS DRAWING VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR NORTH THROUGH THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY AND INTO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES. THIS WAS AIDING IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF ILLINOIS...NORTHERN INDIANA AND MICHIGAN. AT 330 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE EXTREME NORTHERN COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORM(S COULD DEVELOP FARTHER TO THE SOUTH AND WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. IF THREATENING CONDITIONS DEVELOP OR A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. VRCEK
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.