Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 4:27 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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 10, 1996, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 102027 SVRCLE OHC055-102115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 427 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 425PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FOLWERS MILL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF CLARIDON... EAST CLARIDON AND HUNTSBURG. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE A^LERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. RINGO
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 10, 3:37 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
OHZ020-027-036-102340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 336 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES WYANDOT...CRAWFORD... MARION UNTIL 800 PM EDT... WARM MOIST AIR FROM THE GULF AND A COLD FRONT MOVING EAST INTO OHIO HAS THE CAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME VERY UNSTABLE. THEREFORE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN ISSUE FOR THE COUNTIES OF WYANDOT... CRAWFORD...AND MARION UNTIL 8 PM EDT. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMnS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:44 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
OHZ020-027-036-102345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 344 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES WYANDOT...CRAWFORD... MARION UNTIL 900 PM EDT... WARM MOIST AIR FROM THE GULF AND A COLD FRONT MOVING EAST INTO OHIO HAS THE CAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME VERY UNSTABLE. THEREFORE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN ISSUE FOR THE COUNTIES OF WYANDOT... CRAWFORD...AND MARION UNTIL 9 PM EDT. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:51 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
PAZ002-003-520-102355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 351 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES ERIE AND CRAWFORD IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 900 PM EDT... WARM MOIST AIR FROM THE GULF AND A COLD FRONT MOVING EAST INTO OHIO HAS THE CAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME VERY UNSTABLE. THEREFORE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUE FOR THE COUNTIES OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 36 min |
| 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, 4:44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.