Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1996, 3:56 PM EDT for Marion County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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 23, 1996, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 231956 SVRCLE OHC101-232100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 356 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...MARION COUNTY AT 350 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HEPBURN IN EASTERN HARDIN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL PASS NEAR THE TOWNS OF NEW BLOOMINGTON AND PROSPECT IN MARION COUNTY BY 415 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. RINGO
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, Aug 23, 11:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-241200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1130 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD COME DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS BETWEEN NOON AND 6 PM AS A COLD FRONT BEGINS TO MOVE FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE LAKE ERIE LAKESHORE COUNTIES WITH A BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS INLAND FROM THE LAKE FROM AROUND MEADVILLE IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TO YOUNGSTOWN AND CANTON AND MANSFIELD. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME SECTIONS TO SEE SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE COURSE OF THE AFTERNOON. ANY THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AND AREAS THAT HAVE MULTIPLE THUNDERSTORMS COULD SEE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AND P OOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OF THE AREA EARLY TONIGHT AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL END. KOSARIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Marion | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Richland | 117 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.