Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 7:28 PM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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 24, 1996, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huron County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Hartland, 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1341 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 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 242329 SVRCLE OHC077-250030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 728 PM EDT WED JUL 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...HURON COUNTY AT 725 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT CLEVELAND INDICATED A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN HURON COUNTY NEAR NORWALK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. EARLIER...A THUNDERSTORM NEAR TIFFIN PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 56 MPH. 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. MILLER
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 24, 2:37 PM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>009-017>019-027>029-037-251930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 220 PM EDT WED JUL 24 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR NORTHWEST OHIO AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. AT 230 PM...DOPPLER RADARS INDICATED THAT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT WESTERN LAKE ERIE BY 3 PM. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TO THE SOUTHWEST OVER NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO AND MOVE EASTWARD. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES...GO INDOORS TO THE LOWEST LEVEL. LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER SOURCES OF WEATHER INFORMATION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 67 min |
| Jul 24, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 58 min |
| Jul 24, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 64 min |
| Jul 24, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 57 min |
| Jul 24, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 55 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.