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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 1996Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 8:09 PM EDT for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 9, 8:11 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitehouse, OH
May 9, 8:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	North Half, 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 610 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 100009
SVRCLE
OHC095-173-OHZ520-100100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
809 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...LUCAS COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 805 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO WESTERN LUCAS AND WOOD COUNTIES. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT TOLEDO TO BOWLING GREEN BY 830 PM. HAIL AND
HIGH WINDS ARE INDICATED WITH THIS STORM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURR2ING...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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	44 min
May 9, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	41 min
May 10, 1:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	49 min
May 10, 1:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Stark	2 hr
May 10, 1:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wayne	2 hr
May 10, 1:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	65 min
May 10, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	46 min
May 10, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	48 min
May 10, 4:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	2 hr
May 10, 5:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock	2 hr
May 10, 5:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wyandot	2 hr
May 10, 6:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	2 hr
May 10, 7:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wayne	26 min
May 10, 7:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Huron	2 hr
May 10, 7:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Medina, Summit	2 hr
May 10, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	43 min
May 10, 7:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.