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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 1, 1996Mahoning County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 1996, 12:42 PM EST for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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
Dec 1, 1996, 12:42 PM EST (17:42 UTC)
Expired
Dec 1, 1996, 1:45 PM EST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Mahoning County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 011745
SVRCLE
OHC007-099-155-011845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1242 PM EST SUN DEC 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHTABULA COUNTY...MAHONING COUNTY...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SWEEP THROUGH THE AREA BY 145PM. WINGUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY TO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. THE WIND GUSTED TO
AROUND 60 MPH IN BOTH LAKE AND CUYAHOGA COUNTIES AS THE STORMS MOVED
THROUGH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
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, 11:11 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, 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.