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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 11, 1996Erie County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 1996, 8:05 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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: Sep 11, 1996, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Erie County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 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 120008
SVRCLE
OHC043-120045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
805 PM EDT WED SEP 11 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
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 805 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM FROM
CASTALIA TO SANDUSKY IN ERIE COUNTY. THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGH^TNING...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.
 
 
GABRIC

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, Sep 11, 4:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

OHZ002-003-005>009-017>019-120200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
445 PM EDT WED SEP 11 1996

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PART OF NORTHWEST
OHIO THROUGH 10 PM EDT...

THE WATCH INCLUDES FULTON...HENRY...LUCAS...WOOD...AND OTTAWA COUNTIES.
SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE TOLEDO...BOWLING GREEN...WAUSEON...
NAPOLEON...AND PORT CLINTON.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA
WILL SPREAD ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO THROUGH THE EVENING. SOME OF THE
STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SEVERAL OF
THE STORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN HAVE PROMPTED THE ISSUANCE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE
IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. KEEP ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER AND
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR
LOCAL MEDIA.

IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GO INDOORS.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE THE PHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES WHEN LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING.

KOSARIK

Special weather statement, Sep 11, 7:48 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

OHZ002-003-005>009-017-018-120100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
743 PM EDT WED SEP 11 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF
NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

AT 750 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED THAT THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT INTO LAKE ERIE NEAR THE ISLANDS. ALSO...A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WYANDOT COUNTY TO THE SOUTH OF UPPER
SANDUSKY. THE STOR8MS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MPH.

GABRIC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 12, 4:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	29 min
Sep 12, 5:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	38 min
Sep 12, 5:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	35 min
Sep 12, 6:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	30 min
Sep 12, 7:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every 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.