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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Cleveland, OH

November 7, 1996Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 7:15 PM EST for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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, 7:15 PM EST (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 8:15 PM EST
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-11-08Temperature 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 497 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
1450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
497 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
539 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 080017
SVRCLE
OHC133-080115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
715 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
AT 715 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR THE CITY OF BARBERTON IN SUMMIT COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH...AND WILL MOVE NEAR THE CITIES OF STREETSBORO
AND KENT BY 745 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, 7:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake60 min
Nov 7, 7:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark64 min
Nov 7, 7:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula66 min
Nov 7, 7:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull63 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.