Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1996, 10:50 AM EDT for Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 22, 1996, 10:50 AM EDT (14:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1996, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 221450 SVRCLE OHC085-525-221530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1050 AM EDT MON APR 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...LAKE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 1045 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR LOCATED IN CLEVELAND OHIO INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST LAKE COUNTY NEAR WICKLIFFE. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO KIRTLAND BY 11 AM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL..0.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, Apr 22, 7:02 AM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
OHZ001>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-230400- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 700 AM EDT MON APR 22 1996 THE NATIONAL STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND EXTREME NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ...MAINLY EAST OF A TOLEDO TO FINDLAY LINE. THE SEVERE WEATHER WILL MOST LIKELY BE IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL...THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR GREATER IN DIAMETER...ALTHOUGH THE POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYVLANIA BY EARLY AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OHIO BY LATE AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AFTER MIDNIGHT. PEOPLE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD $MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR ANY WATCHES OR WARNINGS THAT MAY BE ISSUED. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 9:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 10:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 53 min |
| Apr 22, 10:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 47 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.