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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 20, 1996Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1996, 7:49 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 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, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 202350
SVRCLE
OHC133-210045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
749 PM EDT TUE AUG 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
AT 747 PM EDT...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST PORTAGE COUNTY NEAR AURORA. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE MANTUA
AND HIRAM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND

DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull38 min
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

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.