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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 1996Fulton County, Henry County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 7:52 PM EDT for Fulton County, Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 1996, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 9, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Mc Clure, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 092352
SVRCLE
OHC051-069-100030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
752 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...FULTON COUNTY...HENRY COUNTY
 
AT 749 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING THE
WESTERN PORTIONS OF FULTON COUNTY AND THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF HENRY
COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF FULTON COUNTY AND THE NORTHERN PORTION OF
HENRY COUNTY BY 830 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

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, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	69 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.