Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 7:35 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 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 24, 1996, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lorain County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 242335 SVRCLE OHC093-250030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 735 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 ...LORAIN COUNTY AT 730PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT CLEVELAND INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ERIE COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN LORAIN COUNTY BY 745 PM. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE VERMILION...LORAIN AND AMHERST. 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 58 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, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 62 min |
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.