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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 4, 1996Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 2:34 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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 4, 1996, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 2:57 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Rocky River, OH
Jun 4, 3:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Parma, 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 5522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 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 041836
SVRCLE
OHC035-041930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
234 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 234 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN
LORAIN COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN
INCREASING IN INTENSITY. SKYWARN OBSERVORS REPORTED MARBLE SIZED HAIL
FELL OVER LORAIN COUNTY.
 
 
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 21 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, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	44 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, 1996 Every 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.