Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1996, 6:45 AM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 1996, 6:45 AM EDT (10:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1996, 7:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 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 10:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 7:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Streetsboro, OH |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 12, 5:46 AM EDT, 59 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>032-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-130000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT-SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 545 AM EDT THU SEP 12 1996 ...THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING. A COLD FRONT IS CROSSING THE AREA THIS MORNING AND WILL BE EAST OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS COLD FRONT COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS. LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING THE AIRMASS WILL STILL BE UNSTABLE ENOUGH FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. WITH COLD AIR ALOFT IN THE ATMOSPHERE...THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL OF THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR MORE. ASIDE FROM THE LARGE HAIL...THERE IS A LESSER RISK FOR DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO AbND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA AND BE AWARE THAT A RISKS FOR SEVERE STORMS EXISTS. ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 40 min |
| 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, 7:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.