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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 20, 1996Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1996, 6:37 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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
Aug 20, 1996, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 1996-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 202237
SVRCLE
OHC155-202315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
637 PM EDT TUE AUG 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
AT 636 PM EDT...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHEAST TRUMBULL COUNTY NORTH OF FARMDALE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST
AT 15 MPH TOWARD MERCER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA.
 
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 LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
ADAMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 3:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox119 min
Aug 20, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula68 min
Aug 20, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga66 min
Aug 20, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga52 min
Aug 20, 6:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga2 hr
Aug 20, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake43 min
Aug 20, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga67 min
Aug 20, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Lorain59 min
Aug 20, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage56 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.