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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 12, 1996Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1996, 7:07 AM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 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, 7:07 AM EDT (11:07 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1996, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:06 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 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 121106
SVRCLE
OHC169-121200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
707 AM EDT THU SEP 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 705 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY NEAR REEDSBURG. THE STORM
IS MOVING EAST AND WILL AFFECT WOOSTER BY 715 AM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...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.

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, 1 hour 21 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.

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, 5:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga35 min
Sep 12, 6:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage30 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.