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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1996, 7:31 PM EDT for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 202333 SVRCLE OHC043-093-OHZ522-523-210030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 731 PM EDT TUE AUG 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ERIE COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 730 PM EDT...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAKE ERIE JUST OFFSHORE FROM LORAIN TO SANDUSKY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH. CITIES THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS ARE...SANDUSKY...CASTALIA...VERMILION AND LORAIN. 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.
| 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, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 66 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, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.