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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 29, 1996Holmes County, Knox County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 7:01 PM EDT for Holmes County, Knox County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 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
Apr 29, 1996, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Holmes County, OH, Knox County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 1996-04-29Temperature 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 1996-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 468 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
468 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
783 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 292302
SVRCLE
OHC075-083-292330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
701 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HOLMES COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER EASTERN KNOX COUNTY NEAR DANVILLE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEASAT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO GLENMONT IN HOLMES COUNTY BY 730 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, 1 hour 37 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion, Morrow55 min
Apr 29, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland36 min
Apr 29, 6:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland39 min
Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain, Medina116 min
Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Erie, Huron, Richland116 min
Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWayne116 min
Apr 29, 7:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes2 hr
Apr 29, 7:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga, Portage, Stark, Summit2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.