Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1996, 7:39 PM EST for Marion County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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
- Feb 27, 1996, 7:39 PM EST (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1996, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCLE 280039 RRA SVRCLE OHC101-280145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 739 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...MARION COUNTY AT 736 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHWEST MARION COUNTY NEAR PROSPECT. THE STOPRM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TOWNAS OF MARION CLARIDON. 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. GABRIC
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, Feb 27, 5:05 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>011-017>019-027>030-036-037-047-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 510 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. THE WATCH IS FOR THE AREA ROUGHLY WEST OF A LINE FROM ELYRIA TO MANSFIELD TO MT. GILEAD. THE UNUSUALLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS OVER THE AREA IN CONJUNCTION WITH A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SERVE TO TRIGGER WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TOPNIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE FRONT WILL ENTER NORTHWEST OHIO BY 8 PM AND THEN SWEEP ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN OHIO AND INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BY MIDNIGHT. A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. AT 5 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADARS INDICATED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN INDIANA WITH THE NORTHERNMOST STORM APPROACHING VAN WERT COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING fNORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OHIO BY 7 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 5:10 PM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>011-017>019-027>030-036-037-047-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 510 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. THE WATCH IS FOR THE AREA ROUGHLY WEST OF A LINE FROM ELYRIA TO MANSFIELD TO MT. GILEAD. THE UNUSUALLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS OVER THE AREA IN CONJUNCTION WITH A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SERVE TO TRIGGER WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TOPNIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE FRONT WILL ENTER NORTHWEST OHIO BY 8 PM AND THEN SWEEP ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN OHIO AND INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BY MIDNIGHT. A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. AT 5 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADARS INDICATED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN INDIANA WITH THE NORTHERNMOST STORM APPROACHING VAN WERT COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OHIO BY 7 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 7:15 PM EST, 24 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>007-017-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 715 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED... ...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 4 AM ... ...A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SENECA COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM... THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO HAS ENDED. THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE AWAY FROM NORTHWEST OHIO OVERNIGHT. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN MANY AREAS UNTIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WHICH COULD PRODUCE LOCAL FLOODING INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. RIVERS AND LARGER WATERWAYS MAY CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE DAYLIGHT HOURS ON WEDNESDAY AND RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR RISING WATER. KOSARIK
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 7:19 PM EST, 20 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>007-017-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 715 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED... ...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 4 AM ... ...A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SENECA COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM... THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO HAS ENDED. THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE AWAY FROM NORTHWEST OHIO OVERNIGHT. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN MANY AREAS UNTIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WHICH COULD PRODUCE LOCAL FLOODING INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. RIVERS AND LARGER WATERWAYS MAY CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE DAYLIGHT HOURS ON WEDNESDAY AND RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR RISING WATER. KOSARIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 7:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron | 115 min |
| Feb 27, 8:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 118 min |
| Feb 27, 8:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lake | 118 min |
| Feb 27, 8:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 3 hr |
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.