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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 1, 1996Erie County, Huron County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 1996, 11:11 AM EST for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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
Dec 1, 1996, 11:11 AM EST (16:11 UTC)
Expired
Dec 1, 1996, 12:00 PM EST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:15 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Dec 1, 11:25 AM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Southern Portion, OH
Dec 1, 11:30 AM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Huron, 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 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-12-01Temperature 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-12-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 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 011614
SVRCLE
OHC043-077-117-139-011700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1111 AM EST SUN DEC 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY...HURON COUNTY...MORROW COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST TO A VERMILION TO MOUNT
VERNON LINE BY NOON. WIND GUSTS TO BETWEEN 50 AND 60 MPH ARE LIKELY AS
THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH.
 
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.
 
 
GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 1, 11:11 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow, Richland49 min
Dec 1, 11:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Lorain68 min
Dec 1, 11:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox68 min
Dec 1, 11:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina, Wayne61 min
Dec 1, 11:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes61 min
Dec 1, 12:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Portage, Stark, Summit73 min
Dec 1, 12:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake73 min
Dec 1, 12:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Trumbull63 min
Dec 1, 12:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning63 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.