Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 4, 1996Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 2:31 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 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 4, 1996, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 51 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 041832
SVRCLE
OHC093-041915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
231 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...LORAIN COUNTY
 
AT 230 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST ODF
LORAIN. THE STORM HAS PRODUCED MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND IS STILL INCREASING
IN INTENSITY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH.
 
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.
 
GABRIC
 
&

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, Jun 4, 1:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
OHZ009>014-019>023-028>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-041900-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1259 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR NORTH
CENTRAL...NORTHEAST OHIO...AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR
NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THE WATCH IS
IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING FROM SANDUSKY SOUTH TO UPPER SANDUSKY AND
ALSO FROM ASHTABULA SOUTHWEST TO EAST OF CHARDON.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY STRENGTHEN AND MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH 3 PM.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...TV AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ONj THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION.

LAPLANTE

END/LAST NAME

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga56 min
Jun 4, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark65 min
Jun 4, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull64 min
Jun 4, 6:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWood31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.