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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 15, 1996Ashtabula County, Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 1:45 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min. 3 reports 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 15, 1996, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 1996, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 15, 1:50 PM EDTHail 1Northwest Portion, OH
Aug 15, 1:50 PM EDTHail 1Orwell, OH
Aug 15, 2:15 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 52Northern Half, 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 574 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
574 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 151746
SVRCLE
OHC007-155-151845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
145 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
 
   ...ASHTABULA COUNTY...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
AT 145 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF BURTON IN GEAUGA COUNTY. THIS STORM IS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 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.
 
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.

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 15, 7:57 AM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes 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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 1:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Summit58 min
Aug 15, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Richland63 min
Aug 15, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion, Morrow56 min
Aug 15, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain, Medina66 min
Aug 15, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage62 min
Aug 15, 2:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula118 min
Aug 15, 2:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMorrow119 min
Aug 15, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula68 min
Aug 15, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit65 min
Aug 15, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion58 min
Aug 15, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne52 min
Aug 15, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake64 min
Aug 15, 3:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit2 hr
Aug 15, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage57 min
Aug 15, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga39 min
Aug 15, 3:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion117 min
Aug 15, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion67 min
Aug 15, 3:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELake3 hr
Aug 15, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne56 min
Aug 15, 4:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion3 hr
Aug 15, 4:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula3 hr
Aug 15, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox54 min
Aug 15, 4:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga2 hr
Aug 15, 5:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox3 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.