Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 8:50 AM EDT for Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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, 8:50 AM EDT (12:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 9:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wyandot County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 091250 SVRCLE OHC175-091330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 850 AM EDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...WYANDOT COUNTY AT 847 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR NEAR HARPSTER. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND MAY ALSO AFFECT UPPER SANDUSKY AND NEVADA. 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, 2 hours 41 minutes 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
Special weather statement, May 9, 7:29 AM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-091700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 713 AM EDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY HAS BEEN DROPPED FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST OHIO...BUT CONTINUES FOR THE REST OF NORTHERN OHIO TIL MID-MORNING. A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO TODAY. A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS IS IN EFFECT FOR HANCOCK COUNTY UNTIL 930 AM EDT. A WARM FRONT THAT WAS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO CAUSED THE DENSE FOG DURING THE NIGHT. VISIBILITIES A QUARTER MILE OR LESS WERE COMMON. THE DENSE FOG WILL CONTINUE TO DISSIPATE THIS MORNING. A WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT THAT WAS MOVING ACROSS INDIANA WAS GENERATING SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO. AS THE RAIN MOVED IN THE VISIBILITY IMPROVED. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN FELL IN PARTS OF HANCOCK COUNTY BETWEEN 6 AM AND 730 AM. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE TODAY IN THE WATCH AREA AS THE WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTH IN OHIO. PEOPLE IN THE FLOOD WATCH AREA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND MONITOR LATER FORECASTS. 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, 7:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 50 min |
| 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, 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
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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.