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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Cleveland, OH

November 7, 19964 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 5:28 PM EST for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
Nov 7, 1996, 5:28 PM EST (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 6:30 PM EST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, OH, Marion County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Richland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
352 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 072230 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC033-101-117-139-072330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
528 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...MARION COUNTY...MORROW COUNTY
   ...RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 525 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER MARION COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH AND WILL REACH MT. GILEAD BY 545 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
END/COMEAUX

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 5:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron57 min
Nov 7, 5:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain62 min
Nov 7, 5:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Knox68 min
Nov 7, 6:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina63 min
Nov 7, 6:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes61 min
Nov 7, 6:37 PM ESTTornado WarningCLECuyahoga68 min
Nov 7, 6:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne62 min
Nov 7, 6:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.