Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 15, 1996, 1:42 PM EDT (17:42 UTC)

Expired

Aug 15, 1996, 2:45 PM EDT

In force

63 min

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

Counties Ashland County, OH, Richland County, OH

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 151743
SVRCLE
OHC005-139-151845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
142 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHLAND COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 140 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF MANSFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO ASHLAND COUNTY.
 
 
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.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
END/COMEAUX

In the hours before

OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-161200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
757 AM EDT THU AUG 15 1996

...A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
   OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS INDICATED A SLIGHT RISK
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO... AND
NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

A COLD FRONT WILL SWING INTO NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND PUSH
INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OHIO THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT OVER NORTHWEST OHIO BY LATE THIS
MORNING OR EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EAST ACROSS THE STATE. THE
THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST OHIO BY EARLY AFTERNOON.

VRCEK

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.