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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 12, 1996Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1996, 5:25 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 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 12, 1996, 5:25 AM EDT (09:25 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1996, 6:00 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 00:00Z on 1996-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 84 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 00:00Z on 1996-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1428 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 11, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie40 min
Sep 12, 4:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford29 min
Sep 12, 5:22 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga38 min
Sep 12, 6:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage30 min
Sep 12, 7:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne53 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.