Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 6:12 PM EST for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 6:12 PM EST (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 6:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Northern Portion, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 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 072314 RRA SVRCLE OHC103-080015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 612 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...MEDINA COUNTY AT 610 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR NEW LONDON SOUTHWEST TO LEXINGTON IN RICHLAND COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES PER HOUR AND MOVE NEAR THE TOWNS OF SPENCER AND VALLEY CITY BY 640PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILD|ING. 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. RINGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 5:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 57 min |
| Nov 7, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Richland | 62 min |
| Nov 7, 5:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 62 min |
| Nov 7, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Knox | 68 min |
| Nov 7, 6:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 61 min |
| Nov 7, 6:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 68 min |
| Nov 7, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 62 min |
| Nov 7, 6:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.