Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1996, 5:39 PM EDT for Geauga 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 20, 1996, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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 20, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Central Portion, 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 202139 SVRCLE OHC055-202245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 539 PM EDT TUE AUG 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 540 PM...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CHESTERLAND. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF FOWLERS MILL AND HUNTSBURG. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWESHT FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 3:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 119 min |
| Aug 20, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 68 min |
| Aug 20, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 52 min |
| Aug 20, 6:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 38 min |
| Aug 20, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 67 min |
| Aug 20, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Lorain | 59 min |
| Aug 20, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 56 min |
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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.