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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 1996Wyandot County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 7:10 AM EDT for Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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: May 9, 1996, 7:10 AM EDT (11:10 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:12 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 495 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 703 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 6.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 091110
SVRCLE
OHC175-091200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
710 AM EDT THU MAY 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WYANDOT COUNTY
 
AT 710 AM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WITH LARGE HAIL...NEAR WHARTON. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, May 9, 6:09 AM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

OHZ001>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-101200-
SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
605 AM EDT THU MAY 9 1996

THE NATIONAL STORM PREDICTIN CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS
INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
TODAY AND THIS EVENING.

A WARM FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TODAY
WILL CAUSE THUNDERSTORMS AND SOME COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT
IS FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. HOWEVER...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT AN
ISOLATED TORNADO COULD ALSO OCCUR.

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYVLANIA NEED TO MONITOR
NOAA WEATHER RAFDIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR WATCHES AND WARNINGS AND KEEP
AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NECESSARY.

KIELTYKA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 8:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Madison	19 min
May 8, 9:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Huron, Sandusky	2 hr
May 9, 7:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock	2 hr
May 9, 7:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wyandot	2 hr
May 9, 8:47 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Seneca	118 min
May 9, 8:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	40 min
May 9, 9:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wyandot	3 hr
May 9, 11:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	68 min
May 9, 11:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	60 min
May 9, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	69 min
May 9, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton, Henry	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every 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.