Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 6:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 31 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.