Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 8:48 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 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, 8:48 PM EDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mahoning County, OH, Trumbull County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 300049 SVRCLE OHC099-155-300145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 848 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...MAHONING COUNTY...TRUMBULL COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF LISBON AND ELLSWORTH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH WARREN AND YOUNGSTWON BY 930 PM EDT. 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, 3 hours 24 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
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.