Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 9:47 PM EDT for Geauga County, Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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, 9:47 PM EDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1996, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Geauga County, OH, Portage County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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, 10:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Hiram, 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 170147 SVRCLE OHC055-133-170245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 947 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS
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, Jul 16, 4:02 PM EDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before
PAZ001>003-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 401 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ERIE...MEADVILLE AND CORRY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR MORE AND LARGE HAIL OF THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR MORE. REMEMBER THAT TORNADOS CAN FORM FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE WHERE RAINFALL IS HEAVY. PEOPLE LIVING IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. ADAMS
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 5:22 PM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
PAZ001-002-003-162230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 522 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NOW CANCELLED FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA BUT GENERALLY SOUTH OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES. SINCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORHM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. END/COMEAUX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 25 min |
| Jul 16, 10:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 3 hr |
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.