Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 5:50 PM EDT for Marion County, Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 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
- Apr 29, 1996, 5:50 PM EDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, OH, Morrow County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Waldo, OH | |
| Apr 29, 6:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Mt Gilead, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 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 292152 SVRCLE OHC101-117-292245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 550 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...MARION AND MORROW COUNTIES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS IN CENTRAL UNION COUNTY JUST NORTH MARYSVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH PROSPECT AND WESTFIELD BY 645 PM. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 5:24 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
OHZ027>031-036>038-047-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 525 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM EDT... WYANDOT...MARION...CRAWFORD...MORROW...RICHLAND...KNOX...ASHLAND... WAYNE AND HOLMES A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL OHIO WILL MOVE INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE WATCH AREA AROUND 6 PM. ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL MOST LIKELY BE IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL...THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR GREATER IN DIAMETER. TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WHICH WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION LATER TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR ANY WARNINGS OR ADDITIONAL WATCHES. BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Knox | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 116 min |
| Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Erie, Huron, Richland | 116 min |
| Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wayne | 116 min |
| Apr 29, 7:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage, Stark, Summit | 2 hr |
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.