Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1996, 1:11 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 8, 1996, 1:11 PM EDT (17:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1996, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 1:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 1387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 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 081710 SVRCLE OHC151-081800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 111 PM EDT THU AUG 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...STARK COUNTY AT 105 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY TO WESTERN STARK COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF ALLINACE AND LEXINGTON BY 130 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BJY 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. JOLLY/WOODWORTH
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, Aug 8, 1:03 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
OHZ010>014-019>023-028>033-037-038-047-PAZ001>003-081955-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
101 PM EDT THU AUG 8 1996
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH
CENTRAL... NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNYSLVANIA UNTIL 6PM EDT.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGAING WINDS... HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE
IN THE WATCH AREA.
AT 1PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE NEAR THE ISLANDS OF WESTERN LAKE ERIE. OTHER STRONGER
STORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR ERIE PENNYSLVANIA TO CANTON OHIO. THE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
AT 1240 A REPORT OF ONE FOOT DIAMETER TREE AND NUMEROUS BRANCHES DOWN
IN NEWTON FALLS OHIO IN TRUMBULL COUNTY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR MAHONING... STARK
COUNTIES IN OHIO AND ERIE COUNTY IN PENNYSLVANIA UNTIL 115 THIS
AFTERNOON AND UNTIL 130 PM PORTAGE AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES IN OHIO AND
CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNYSLVANIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ALSO IN
EFFECT FOR ASHTABULA COUNTY.
PERSONS IN CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP UPDATE ON WEATHER BY
LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS.
THOMPSON
4 *** THIS SPACE FOR ADDITONAL INFORMATION ***
END/LAST NAMESpecial weather statement, Aug 8, 1:08 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
OHZ010>014-019>023-028>033-037-038-047-PAZ001>003-081955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 101 PM EDT THU AUG 8 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL... NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNYSLVANIA UNTIL 6PM EDT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGAING WINDS... HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. AT 1PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR THE ISLANDS OF WESTERN LAKE ERIE. OTHER STRONGER STORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR ERIE PENNYSLVANIA TO CANTON OHIO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. AT 1240 A REPORT OF ONE FOOT DIAMETER TREE AND NUMEROUS BRANCHES DOWN IN NEWTON FALLS OHIO IN TRUMBULL COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR MAHONING... STARK COUNTIES IN OHIO AND ERIE COUNTY IN PENNYSLVANIA UNTIL 115 THIS AFTERNOON AND UNTIL 130 PM PORTAGE AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES IN OHIO AND CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNYSLVANIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ALSO IN EFFECT FOR ASHTABULA COUNTY. PERSONS IN CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP UPDATE ON WEATHER BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS. THOMPSON ...CORDRECTION TO DELETE EXTRA WORDING...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 11:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 11:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 12:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Stark | 69 min |
| Aug 8, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 1:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 4:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Morrow | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 68 min |
| Aug 8, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Summit | 2 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.