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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 238, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 29, 1996Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1996, 11:41 PM EST for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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: Oct 29, 1996, 11:41 PM EST (04:41 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 1996, 12:30 AM EST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Lucas County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 29, 11:59 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Northern Half, 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 345 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 300443 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC095-300530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1141 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
 
   ...LUCAS COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM FULTON COUNTY WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS LUCAS
COUNTY. WINDS OVER 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. THE
STORMS ARE MOVING QUICKLY AND WILL PASS NEAR HOLLAND AND SYLVANIA AROUND
1210 AM AND TOLEDO BY 1220 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.
 
KOSARIK

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, Oct 29, 9:30 PM EST, 2 hours 11 minutes before

OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-300800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
930 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST OHIO AND FOR
PART OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 2 AM. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM
ERIE...HURON...RICHLAND AND KNOX COUNTIES WESTWARD INCLUDING ALL OF
NORTHWEST OHIO.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE WAUSEON...TOLEDO...BOWLING
GREEN...FINDLAY...FREMONT...TIFFIN...UPPER SANDUSKY...BUCYRUS...
MANSFIELD...NORWALK...AND SANDUSKY.

A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS
NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO OVERNIGHT AND WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR
HIGHER ARE POSSIBLE. STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE EVEN IN AREAS
THAT DO NOT HAVE A THUNDERSTORM SINCE SOME OF THE SHOWERS WILL ALSO
CONTAIN STRONG WINDS. A WIND ADVISORY ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT.

THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH NORTHWEST OHIO BY 11
PM...THE TOLEDO AREA AROUND MIDNIGHT...AND THE SANDUSKY...NORWALK...
BUCYRUS AND MANSFIELD AREAS BETWEEN 1 AM AND 2 AM.

RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS TONIGHT. THE SAFEST PLACE DURING HIGH
WINDS IS IN THE BASEMENT OR ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM.
AVOID WINDOWS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS BEING GENERATED BY A FAST
MOVING COLD FRONT THAT WILL CROSS NORTHERN OHIO TONIGHT.

BARJENBRUCH/KOSARIK

Special weather statement, Oct 29, 9:35 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes before

OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-300800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
930 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST OHIO AND FOR
PART OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 2 AM. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM
ERIE...HURON...RICHLAND AND KNOX COUNTIES WESTWARD INCLUDING ALL OF
NORTHWEST OHIO.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE WAUSEON...TOLEDO...BOWLING
GREEN...FINDLAY...FREMONT...TIFFIN...UPPER SANDUSKY...BUCYRUS...
MANSFIELD...NORWALK...AND SANDUSKY.

A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS
NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO OVERNIGHT AND WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR
HIGHER ARE POSSIBLE. STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE EVEN IN AREAS
THAT DO NOT HAVE A THUNDERSTORM SINCE SOME OF THE SHOWERS WILL ALSO
CONTAIN STRONG WINDS. A WIND ADVISORY ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT.

THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH NORTHWEST OHIO BY 11
PM...THE TOLEDO AREA AROUND MIDNIGHT...AND THE SANDUSKY...NORWALK...
BUCYRUS AND MANSFIELD AREAS BETWEEN 1 AM AND 2 AM.

RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS TONIGHT. THE SAFEST PLACE DURING HIGH
WINDS IS IN THE BASEMENT OR ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM.
AVOID WINDOWS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS BEING GENERATED BY A FAST
MOVING COLD FRONT THAT WILL CROSS NORTHERN OHIO TONIGHT.

BARJENBRUCH/KOSARIK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 10:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	36 min
Oct 29, 11:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton, Henry	50 min
Oct 30, 12:20 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	40 min
Oct 30, 12:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	48 min
Oct 30, 12:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	45 min
Oct 30, 12:36 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	54 min
Oct 30, 12:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	59 min
Oct 30, 1:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	42 min
Oct 30, 1:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	45 min
Oct 30, 1:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	56 min
Oct 30, 1:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.