Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 1996, 11:29 AM EST for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 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
- Dec 1, 1996, 11:29 AM EST (16:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 1, 1996, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holmes County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 11:55 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Nashville, 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 568 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 599 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 011632 SVRCLE OHC035-075-103-169-011730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1129 AM EST SUN DEC 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...HOLMES COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY ...WAYNE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE A BAND OF SEVER THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LORAIN...TO ABOUT MOUNT VERNON WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST AHND PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND V2ERY 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 11:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 49 min |
| Dec 1, 11:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 49 min |
| Dec 1, 11:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain | 68 min |
| Dec 1, 11:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 68 min |
| Dec 1, 11:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina, Wayne | 61 min |
| Dec 1, 12:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage, Stark, Summit | 73 min |
| Dec 1, 12:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 73 min |
| Dec 1, 12:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 63 min |
| Dec 1, 12:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 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.