Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 1:54 PM EDT for Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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 15, 1996, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 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 15, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Chippewa Lake, 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 57 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Summit | 58 min |
| Aug 15, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 62 min |
| Aug 15, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 118 min |
| Aug 15, 2:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Morrow | 119 min |
| Aug 15, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 68 min |
| Aug 15, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 58 min |
| Aug 15, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 3:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Summit | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 57 min |
| Aug 15, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 3:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Marion | 117 min |
| Aug 15, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 67 min |
| Aug 15, 3:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lake | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 4:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Marion | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 54 min |
| Aug 15, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 55 min |
| Aug 15, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 58 min |
| Aug 15, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 4:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.