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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 1996Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 6:36 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 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, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 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 092242 COR
SVRCLE
OHC007-OHZ526-092345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
636 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHTABULA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 634 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING
NORTHWEST ASHTABULA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25
MILES AN HOUR AND WILL HIT THE TOWN OF ASHTABULA BY 700 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
WOODWORTH
 
CORRECTED GENERIC CODING

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, 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, 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.