Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 6:11 PM EDT for Huron County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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
- Apr 12, 1996, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Huron County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 6:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Countywide, OH | |
| Apr 12, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 72 | Countywide, 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 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 122213 SVRCLE OHC077-093-122315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 611 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...HURON COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY AN AREA OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN HURON AND LORAIN COUNTIES OUT AHEAD OF A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. 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. MILLER
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, Apr 12, 3:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
OHZ001>008-015>018-024>027-034>036-130000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 335 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ABOUT THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE STATE UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING. LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHWEST ILLINOIS WAS DRAWING VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR NORTH THROUGH THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY AND INTO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES. THIS WAS AIDING IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF ILLINOIS...NORTHERN INDIANA AND MICHIGAN. AT 330 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE EXTREME NORTHERN COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORM(S COULD DEVELOP FARTHER TO THE SOUTH AND WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. IF THREATENING CONDITIONS DEVELOP OR A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. VRCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Wood | 51 min |
| Apr 12, 6:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Sandusky | 59 min |
| Apr 12, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Cuyahoga, Medina | 62 min |
| Apr 12, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 62 min |
| Apr 12, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 46 min |
| Apr 12, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 46 min |
| Apr 12, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 47 min |
| Apr 12, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 47 min |
| Apr 12, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 47 min |
| Apr 12, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.