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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 1, 1996Holmes County, Ohio

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Dec 1, 11:55 AM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Nashville, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-12-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 568 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 1, 11:11 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow, Richland49 min
Dec 1, 11:11 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron49 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, 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.