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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 3, 1996Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 7:39 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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
Jun 3, 1996, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
670 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 032340
SVRCLE
OHC155-040030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
739 PM EDT MON JUN 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
AT 738 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
WARREN. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND
WILL MOVE NEAR THE YOUNGSTOWN AIRPORT AND FOWLER BY
8 PM.
 
 
 
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.
 
LAPLANTE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 2:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWyandot2 hr
Jun 3, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford42 min
Jun 3, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain50 min
Jun 3, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox62 min
Jun 3, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes46 min
Jun 3, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark42 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.