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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 19, 1996Geauga County, Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 12:58 AM EDT for Geauga County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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 19, 1996, 12:58 AM EDT (04:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1996, 1:45 AM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Geauga County, OH, Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:58 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
429 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 190459
SVRCLE
OHC055-155-190545-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1258 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
AT 1255 AM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
HUNTSBERG. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME TOWN IN
ITS PATH ARE MESOPOTAMIA AND OAKFIELD.
 
OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ABOUT IN GEAUGA COUNTY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDIvNG.  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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 12:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula37 min
Jul 19, 1:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
Jul 19, 2:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELake2 hr
Jul 19, 4:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula3 hr

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.