Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 5:13 PM EDT for Knox County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 3, 1996, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Knox County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:25 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Centerburg, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 032114 SVRCLE OHC083-032215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 513 PM EDT MON JUN 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...KNOX COUNTY AT 510 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CENTERBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR MT. VERNON AND FREDERICKTOWN BY 545 PM. THIS STORM WILL ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY DOWNPOURS HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLOODING. 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. END/BC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 51 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.