Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 6:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 30 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.