Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 8:04 PM EDT for Portage County, Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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 10, 1996, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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 10, 8:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Hartville, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 4 hours 27 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, 4 hours 20 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, 4 hours 13 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.
Special weather statement, May 10, 6:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
OHZ010>014-019>023-027-029>033-036>038-047-523>526-PAZ001>003- 520-110240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 637 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE COUNTIES WYANDOT...CRAWFORD... MARION IN OHIO AND FOR THE COUNTIES OF CRAWFORD AND ERIE IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE...EAST LAKESHORE...CENTRAL HIGHLAND...AND NORTHEAST INLAND OHIO REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CAUSE WIDE SPREAD SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOODING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY NFLOOD QUICKLY.
Special weather statement, May 10, 7:23 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
OHZ010>014-019>023-027-029>033-036>038-047-523>526-PAZ001>003- 520-110240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 723 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE COUNTIES WYANDOT...CRAWFORD... MARION IN OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE COUNTIES OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE...EAST LAKESHORE...CENTRAL HIGHLAND...AND NORTHEAST INLAND OHIO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CAUSED WIDE SPREAD SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOODING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. WSF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 3 hr |
| May 11, 6:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 3 hr |
| May 11, 7:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 3 hr |
| May 11, 8:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes, Mahoning, Stark | 3 hr |
| May 11, 8:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 3 hr |
| May 11, 9:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Morrow, Richland | 2 hr |
| May 11, 9:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wayne | 2 hr |
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.